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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Cool heads needed to avoid backyard brawl</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Peter Alford   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Condemned to Crisis: Will the Relationship Between Australia and Indonesia Always be Volatile?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Ken Ward Penguin Special, 152pp, $9.99</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In this short and provoking book, which originated as a <span class="companylink">Lowy Institute</span> paper, Ken Ward analyses the Australia-Indonesia political relationship in terms of its recent crises, having abundant material to hand.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Squabbles and froideurs between Canberra and Jakarta are now so commonplace, indeed, it seems no longer remarkable we may have ­several on the go at the same time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ambassador Paul Grigson returned to ­Jakarta in June after a five-week withdrawal to protest against the execution of drug mules Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran in circumstances not only tragic but, for many Australians, offensive. Indonesia remains off-limits for visits for Tony Abbott’s ministers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immediately on the ambassador’s return, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi confronted him at a conference, demanding an explanation of the latest, strangest turn-back of an <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b>, with Vice-President Jusuf Kalla describing the Australians’ apparent payment of $US30,000 to crew as “a form of bribery”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As during the row over our electronic spy agency’s eavesdropping on previous president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his wife, during which SBY called back his envoy, the Abbott government still refuses the Indonesians a clarification of the matter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Critics in Australia and Indonesia say mistrust and antagonism in political relations are at their highest since the aftermath of East Timor’s 1999 vote for independence. That’s probably accurate, but misleading as to effect.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On other levels, bilateral matters are normal, more or less. There appears to be no Indonesian hesitancy about, for instance, academic contacts, as there was during the spying row. Even over boats Australia and Indonesia don’t risk outright confrontation, let alone a new Konfrontasi, as Kevin Rudd mischievously suggested while limbering up for the 2013 election campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Abbott’s prognosis post-election — “the relationship will once more be one of no surprises, based on mutual trust, dependability and absolute respect for each other’s sovereignty” — now seems as laughable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ward, a former diplomat whose last government job was senior Indonesia analyst at the Office of National Assessments, occupies most of his book examining three bilateral crises arising during Abbott’s term: “turning back the boats”, eavesdropping and the Bali Two executions. He considers the historical problems underlying these episodes and particularly the political-cultural disparities that aggravate them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The executions were in significant respects the least “typical” of our recent rows but, Ward suggests, a precursor of future disputes. He infers that partly from Joko Widodo’s persistent encouragement of a form of popular nationalism that SBY and even Suharto, mostly, sought to restrain. You may call it Sukarnoist, though Ward doesn’t quite.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Probably the most atypical aspect of the executions blow-up was that there was no Australian hand in lighting the fuse. That was done by the President with his December 9 announcement that none of the 64 drug criminals on ­Indonesia’s death row would receive mercy from him and the consequent swift scheduling of executions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If he wasn’t aware from the outset that other governments with doomed citizens would react badly, and that Australia’s response would be the most difficult for Indo­nesia, the new leader was very poorly advised or saw no need to consider foreign relations ramifications, or most likely both.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Once he did begin engaging on that level, Joko invariably insisted the executions were an expression of Indonesia’s “legal sovereignty”. Indonesian sovereignty and “firmness” in its assertion have become a steady refrain in his responses to issues with foreign dimensions. Domestically, Joko deploys them as evidence of Indonesia’s imminent emergence as a major nation in world affairs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ward points out Yudhoyono was no less determined his country should sit at top tables but adds that “defending Indonesia’s sovereignty was not his main priority because he did not see it as constantly under threat”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And though Ward liberally documents ­Abbott’s own aggravations to problems that become confrontations, he doesn’t directly suggest, as others may, that interaction between these two neighbouring populist-nationalist leaders is, of itself, likely to be habitually scratchy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What Ward argues is that the train of recent crises should impel Australian policymakers — and engaged academics and media commentators — towards more realistic approaches to the relationship.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For sure, Australian government politicians need to curb their deep-grained habit of directing their first and foremost responses to Indonesia problems to domestic constituencies and critics at home. They need to prioritise direct and culturally appropriate communication with Jakarta counterparts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And, for sure, Indonesian leaders should take more responsibility for managing bilateral political fallouts before they go critical and should respond with “greater maturity” to neighbours with whom relations have been persistently problematic; so Malaysia and Singapore as well.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But under a Joko presidency that isn’t likely to happen, Ward argues. So since Canberra for at least the past 25 years has invested far more heavily in the relationship than Jakarta — even in SBY’s time, though he reached out with more conviction than his predecessors or successor — it falls inevitably on Australians to consolidate the gains and prevent further crisis erosion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the same time, however, Ward argues, Australian policymakers and policy thinkers need to adjust significantly the foreign policy vector running through Jakarta which, in a ­calmer moment, had Abbott telling SBY “no other relationship, not one, is more important than our friendship with Indonesia due to its size, proximity and potential to be a global leader”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is an effusive expression of prevalent elite-level Australian regard and intent for the relationship, which often falters in crisis situations when public opinion shoulders its way into the discussion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And Indonesian public opinion, Ward points out, these days also plays a bigger, more volatile and complicating role when insults to national sovereignty are perceived.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All that was evident during the espionage quarrel when demonstrators outside the <span class="companylink">Australian embassy</span> were encouraged to round on SBY for his claimed weakness responding to the Australian affront.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In any case, the official Australian relationship priority generally is not reciprocated by Indonesian policymakers who do not, openly at least, rank foreign policy precedence by ­country and clearly do not rate strategic engagement as highly as Canberra does.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This then is a controversial argument, running against the grain of established Australian thinking, but I suspect it is not entirely friendless, for instance, in Ward’s former workplace, the Department of Foreign Affairs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the other hand, some people whose views I respect and heed will be considerably annoyed by this book, as Ward intended.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But this feels like a sensible moment to ­direct inwards some of the Australian frankness our Indonesian friends experience, unappreciatively, at times of relationship stress. This is an informed, deliberately provocative, but not shrill, starting point.Peter Alford has been The Australian’s Jakarta correspondent since mid-2010.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GRAEME BLUNDELL, FIRST WATCH   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The new series of Go Back to Where You Came From is even more emotionally confronting than the first two</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘I just want to just live a respectable life here as a human; I just say, welcome us,” Ammar Mershed says in one of the most moving scenes in the new series of the award-winning Go Back to Where You Came From. It’s the factual program in which a group of carefully chosen Australians agree to challenge their preconceived notions about refugees and <b>asylum</b>-seekers. Intrepidly, and dangerously at times too, they trace in reverse the journeys these despairing people have taken to reach Australia, the participants travelling to some of the most desperate parts of the world, with no idea what is in store for them.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s such an elegant idea for a series: kind of through-the-mirror TV, as entertaining as it is confrontational. Mershed is a Palestinian <b>refugee</b> from Iraq, encountered by some of the opinionated group early in the first episode. He’s a deeply sincere but jolly and hospitable man now working as a teacher’s aide. His family has settled in western Sydney’s Bankstown, part of the world’s five million stateless Palestinians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When the six Australian participants move in with refugees (former boatpeople) — the other person they encounter is Rohingya Muslim <b>asylum</b>-seeker Shomsul Allam, a so-called queue jumper — the new series becomes even more emotionally confronting than the previous two. It’s fascinating, visceral TV, the series again produced by skilled documentarian Rick McPhee, a veteran filmmaker able to tell a prodigious amount with the sparest of means.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As has been the case in each of the three series so far, the chosen participants differ in their political views, from vehemently opposing the detention of <b>asylum</b>-seekers to wanting to send all of them straight back. At times there is biting sarcasm, seemingly unreachable doggedness, accusations of treason, and such intense compassion that at times it’s cloying and sticky but always watchable, even as you recoil from some extremist views. At times the atmosphere ­verges on melodrama and even farce, and sometimes there’s a kind of crazed absurdist humour that emerges from strained silences and sudden eruptions of unexpected emotion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This year the participants include a former <b>refugee</b> who escaped communist Vietnam at the age of eight; two sisters with opposing opinions (Jodi detests queue jumpers, Renee is a <b>refugee</b> support worker); a Nauru and Manus Island whistleblower; a tough-talking but ­garrulous teacher; and Kim, a formidable “stop the boats” campaigner.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The participants are divided into two teams of three and again are accompanied by a group of about 16, the numbers shrinking and expanding depending on the circumstances. There are two producers, a camera operator and sound person on each team. (Each of the producers doubles as director.) Again the argumentative applicants — ­chosen largely through social media by McPhee with particular people in mind — were not scripted, which is the norm in these kinds of shows. “The participants are not produced as in they are not told what to say,” he says. “But the producers decide when to pull participants aside to have a chat about how they feel about what they are seeing or doing. Of course the cameras follow them most of the time and often their reactions and comments are captured on the fly.” He calls it “constructed documentary”. He and his producers choose the places to which the participants are taken, the people they meet and the activities in which they engage. “However, once the participants are there, we stand back and film what takes place; there is minimal intervention at that stage,” McPhee adds.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The journey starts benignly enough in the series, which is again narrated with gruff objective authority by Colin Friels. The apprehensive travellers hand over their wallets, mobile phones and passports to guide David Corlett, author and <b>refugee</b> expert who travels between the two teams.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After initially spending several days with the families of the two <b>asylum</b>-seekers, now settled in Australia, to experience their stories along with their hospitality, the group travels to Indonesia where they board a rickety fishing <b>boat</b> typically used by people-smugglers and head for an unknown destination.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the chilling following sequence they are immersed in a first-hand experience of Australia’s “turn back the boats” policy, transferred from the vessel in pitch darkness to an orange lifeboat and taken to Indonesia. Then they live with <b>asylum</b>-seekers who have been forcibly returned by the Australian navy. One group then treks through the Thai jungle to discover how <b>asylum</b>-seekers are trafficked and sold into slavery, while the other group visits the world’s newest city, a <b>refugee</b> camp built in the Jordanian desert and home to more than 80,000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Much has changed in the three years since Go Back to Where You Came From season two in 2012: its participants then including the heated old rocker Angry Anderson, whose political mantra was “Stick yer illegals up your arse”, and former commonwealth ombudsman Allan Asher, an outspoken <b>refugee</b> advocate. Inflammatory comic Catherine Deveny, who believes no one is illegal, provoked everyone who crossed her path, especially affable former Howard government senior cabinet minister Peter Reith. He kept repeating the party line, though with less conviction as he encountered the reality of his former government’s policies. (Throughout the series Reith presented as an intelligent and gracious good sport, with his sometimes querulous tongue in check and a look of quiet dismay on his face.) This series looks at what has happened since the introduction of the government’s “stop the boats” policies, controversy surrounding detainee treatment in detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island, and the growing public awareness of “stateless” <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many questions are raised and debated in fiery, emotional exchanges. What, in fact, is a “well-founded fear of persecution”? Is our punitive system of detention really a form of constructive coercion by our government, causing such profound distress and despair that refugees feel they have no other option but to return to a place where they continue to fear they will face brutality? And what constitutes humane treatment rather than simple <b>asylum</b>?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I am not surprised participants are eager to talk about their views,” McPhee says. “By agreeing to participate … they understand it is, in essence, a social experiment in which we monitor their views and opinions as they embark on the 25-day experience.” He suggests that no one was cast who was incapable of defending their views or reluctant to express themselves. “Having done two series before, I am very aware of how emotional the trip is for participants and how talking about their thoughts and feelings can help them deal with it.” He says there are no ground rules as such in the production. “We prefer people to talk on camera rather than off. We have a psychologist on standby at all times for participants to talk to — either during the 25-day journey or afterwards. It is often when participants return home that they seek her assistance.” Jodi, one of the sisters, in particular, struggled when she returned home. “Not only did she have an overwhelming sense of helplessness, she felt no one understood how she was feeling or what she had experienced,” McPhee says. “The psychologist helped her process her thoughts and feelings.” Kim, the grandmother who maintains a <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> page supporting the government, has a lovely way of closing an argument and avoiding stress. Far more complex and altruistic than she sometimes appears, she just says, “I’m going for a smoke”, and wanders off to brood.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">McPhee’s show — and it is a show, brilliantly conceived and entertainingly compelling — highlights dramatically the terrible human effects of political strategies that deny the relevance of morality in national affairs. And once more it’s seemingly nonpartisan and balanced in its take on the politics of <b>asylum</b>, and it goes to air at a time — again, again — when neither of the two main political parties can lay claim to a principled stand on the issue. As was the case with the previous seasons, even if it doesn’t change a single attitude, the series exposes the <b>refugee</b> reality of arbitrary arrest, harassment, despair, extortion, impris­onment and mental disintegration in internment.Go Back To Where You Came From screens at 8.30pm on SBS One across three consecutive nights on Tuesday, July 28; Wednesday, July 29; and Thursday, July 30.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Labor leadership heading into ultimate test</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MARK KENNY - Mark Kenny is The Age's chief political correspondent.  </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Support for Labor has held up, despite Tony Abbott's attacks against Bill Shorten.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is as common as a Canberra frost: invite a discussion on federal politics anywhere outside the capital and two contradictory themes soon bubble up. People tell you they can't stand Tony Abbott and are convinced he will not be re-elected, but they also think Bill Shorten is a damp squib, cannot cut the mustard, and will never be prime minister.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Presumably, both positions cannot be right. Barring the replacement of either leader by their respective parliamentary parties - possible but unlikely - these two men will present voters with a binary choice when they go to the polls - whenever that is.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tellingly, speculation of an early election this year, which had spiked on the back of the government's best legislative week as Parliament wound up for the winter break in June, has since abated. Wiser heads within the ministry had already dismissed such talk, aware that an early poll would probably just mean an early exit for the Abbott government. They cited a six-point (53-47) Labor lead in published polls, noting that it has been more-or-less fixed in place for 16 months. For them, it is the durability of the Labor lead rather than its scale that is most worrying. If it hasn't changed yet, perhaps it never will.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And although Abbott has privately said he thinks he can win going into an election campaign while down in the polls with two-party-preferred share of 49-51, or even 48-52, pulling the election lever in current circumstances would be bold indeed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nonetheless, prime ministers always like to be ready to capitalise on the changing winds of political fortune, which is why some government MPs continue to salivate over Shorten's recent poll descent. But is this wishful thinking? Has Shorten been underestimated by coalition MPs in just the same way that Labor underestimated Abbott, whom they branded "unelectable"?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This week's bold policy announcements by Shorten on renewable energy and <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats must surely have some Liberals reconsidering their assessments. More on those in a moment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Labor leader's abiding first-half achievement had been to wrangle a notoriously riven party into an effective opposition, delivering its quietest and most unified period in memory. The dividends quickly flowed: an uncommonly rapid poll recovery propelling Shorten into the lead as preferred PM, and restoring the ALP to legitimate contender status in 2016 despite the depths of dysfunction of the last government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An adept political street fighter, Abbott is under no illusions, which is why his strategy had always contained a mid-term depth charge cleverly timed to bring to the surface doubts about Shorten personally.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That depth charge is known formally as the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption. Abbott knew he could not attack union power and ALP patronage directly, as John Howard had done, lest it licence another Work Choices-style scare campaign, so he set about doing it by proxy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A couple of difficult days in the witness stand, seasoned with a pinch of gratuitous personal commentary from the Royal Commissioner himself, hastened Shorten's fall from grace, and the once chart-topping Opposition Leader now trails as preferred PM, with plummeting personal approval numbers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That's where it stands at present, reminding us of a point Abbott had demonstrated to great effect in 2013 - namely, that parties can win with unpopular leaders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor's support as a party has held up even as its leader's has dived. Even so, Labor MPs are chattering again with doubts about Shorten's lack of "cut-through" and even fanciful stories doing the rounds suggesting an alliance between Shorten's left-faction NSW deputy, Tanya Plibersek, and former deputy PM Wayne Swan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This represents Abbott's best possible result, with Shorten damaged internally and some in Labor back to their old ways of forgetting the main game to focus on enemies within.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Shorten is intimidated by the situation, he is not showing it. Going into this triennium's ALP National Conference, he has unveiled significant policy positions on climate, <b>asylum</b> seekers and same-sex marriage - all of which seek to modernise the platform and put Labor onside with majority opinion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is not without risks. With the 400-delegate conference evenly poised between left and right, gaining majority support is likely if not assured. By far the most dangerous is his proposed switch to adopt <b>boat</b> turn-backs when safe. A defeat for the leader on such a fundamental policy change would be very damaging - probably fatal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There have been few more clear-cut left-right divides in national politics than this issue, yet Shorten's assessment is that Labor's long-term position has become untenable. He admits that the Rudd government erred. On this he is correct. Like it or not, the harsh policy of this government has achieved a morally superior outcome: people have stopped dying at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is many a challenge for Shorten between now and the election. But on any measure, he has done better than previous opposition leaders to date. The National Conference was always going to be a test of his mettle, and a staging point for his policy projection heading into an election year. How well he does over the next few days will tell us much about his real prospects in 2016, and about how ready his party really is to be taken seriously by voters.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shorten's fraught balancing acts</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>776 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Liberal Party is generously offering federal Labor leader Bill Shorten advice on what to do at the ALP national conference starting on Friday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under a graphic of bulging bin-liners and the words 'Shorten + Labor = Too much baggage', the Liberals' pre-election advice sheet takes a series of cheap shots. All of them - unfortunately for those who prefer good policy to pure politics - reflect quite accurately the difficult balancing acts Mr Shorten has to perform over the weekend.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Liberals say the Labor leader must:</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Stand up to Labor's Left and the Greens and reject plans to reintroduce a job-destroying carbon tax." The Herald disagrees. Labor should seek to morph the coalition's Direct Action scheme into a market-based mechanism or create another trading scheme to reduce emissions. It is the lowest cost and most effective method. He should use the scare campaign from the Liberals to his advantage by speaking out against the misinformation that such schemes involve a carbon tax, and stressing instead that the alternative is failure and dire consequences for future generations. But at the same time, Mr Shorten needs to release modelling to show how and with which technologies he will reach his flagged 50 per cent renewable energy target by 2030 without lifting electricity prices.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Support all the Coalition's successful border security policies." Much shock has greeted the unsurprising news that Mr Shorten has changed his mind on the <b>boat</b> turnbacks policy. When Mr Shorten slapped down his immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, last October for suggesting Labor might back turnbacks, the Herald said Mr Shorten should have responded pragmatically with this: 'Labor has opposed turnbacks but of course we will examine what works best for Australia within our suite of policies and our international obligations, without endangering innocent people or offending Indonesia'. Labor can justify safe turnbacks with: less secrecy; more regional agreements to limit the need for turnbacks and reduce long-term detention costs; refinement of definitions relating to potential economic refugees; a sharp increase in the total <b>refugee</b> intake; faster processing offshore; removal of all children from detention; and a focus on ensuring offshore centres treat <b>asylum</b> seekers as humans not animals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Break the influence of union bosses over the Labor Party." Hear hear. Labor is an undemocratic party at the whim of unrepresentative union leaders seeking personal or political advancement. Mr Shorten's own baggage at the AWU remains the biggest threat to his leadership and ability to be trusted by voters. The proposals to democratise Labor at this conference fall well short of what is required. That partly reflects the pushback from socially conservative right-wing unions which fear democracy will lead to control by the Left and a party that reflects community values on legalising same-sex marriage and becoming a republic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Support the Coalition's policies to end the thuggery and lawlessness of unions such as the CFMEU." The Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption has exposed some of the worst aspects of the labour movement. Rather than embracing all trade unions through an unrepresentative structure - even as membership falls - Labor needs to rebuild as a social democratic party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Detail how Labor will pay for their $52 billion in unfunded spending promises." Such a demand is a bit rich from a Coalition government which has left an $80 billion hole in schools and hospital funding for the states at the same time as implementing unfair policies that hit the poorest while refusing to accept limits on lucrative tax breaks for the wealthy on superannuation, negative gearing and capital gains tax. But it would be good for both sides to reveal how they will fund all their policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Detail Labor's plans to get the budget back in balance." That's the wrong issue nowadays. The key point is whether Labor can show it has the credentials to reduce the deficit when the economy can handle it and improve productivity along the way.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even without such kind advice from the Liberals, Mr Shorten knows his tenure as leader depends on finding a sustainable balance this weekend, between Left and Right, <b>asylum</b> seekers and <b>boat</b> turnbacks, emissions trading and Direct-ish Action, spending and saving, unions and democracy, social conservatism and changing values.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The mark of Mr Shorten's success in electoral terms won't be how many times he is criticised or loses a vote at the conference. It will be how he manages to maintain the veneer of Labor unity with at most 14 months before the next election and an early poll still possible.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | nedi : Editorials | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SMHH000020150723eb7o00051</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020150723eb7o00052" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion - Leaders</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shorten's <b>boat</b> backflip is reprehensible</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>630 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In case anyone has forgotten, it was the Australian Labor Party that introduced banishment to Nauru and Manus Island as a way of halting the flow of boats carrying <b>asylum</b> seekers and economic migrants to our shores. And it was Labor under Kevin Rudd that declared "<b>asylum</b> seekers who come here by <b>boat</b> will never be settled in Australia". That uncompromising "solution", as some might glorify it, has been the most profound deterrent on people-trafficking in this region.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turning back boats was an addendum to that policy. It was introduced by the Abbott government in late 2013, initially by towing boats to Indonesian waters, then transferring people into orange vessels and pointing them back to Indonesia. Later variations include detaining people on Australian vessels in international waters before handing them to authorities from other countries; using Australian naval vessels to sail <b>asylum</b> seekers directly to ports in their home countries; and, more recently, paying cash to persuade an Indonesian <b>boat</b> crew to turn their <b>boat</b> around and go back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">None of this is acceptable. Not the offshore processing system, nor the eternal banishment from Australia. Not the reprehensible prison-like conditions on Nauru and Manus Island, which are designed to crush people's spirits and, thus, deter others who might attempt the ocean journey. And certainly unacceptable, in our view, is the interception, towing or turning back of boats, let alone handing people back to those same countries which they believe perpetrate persecution, are complicit in such oppression, or are unable or unwilling to protect them from harm and discrimination.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten this weekend will ask the Australian Labor Party's national conference to formally approve a dramatic shift in policy and adopt the turn-back strategy of the Abbott government. We believe the policy is morally repugnant, and that Labor's rationale is flawed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Richard Marles, Labor's spokesman on immigration, contends that while most people who attempt the sea journey from Indonesia to Australia are genuine refugees, this final leg "is not a flight from persecution. No one is fleeing persecution in Indonesia". This is simplistic rubbish. Ask Papua New Guinea about refugees who have fled oppressive authorities or racial and religious violence in West Papua and other eastern provinces. More importantly, however, we remind Mr Marles that superior courts around the world have confirmed repeatedly that it does not matter whether a <b>refugee</b> has come via one country or many to seek <b>asylum</b>. The claim must be assessed, on its merits, by the country where it is sought.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We believe this nation should uphold its obligations under international law, with respect paid to the needs of each person who seeks assistance. For that reason, The Age does not support turning back <b>asylum</b> seeker boats. Repelling people at sea, or depositing them in other countries, prematurely terminates their claims for protection. This is a ruthless and despicable relinquishment of Australia's obligations. While the offshore detention system provides for some processing of <b>refugee</b> claims, it is terribly flawed, not least in principle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We believe in justice, and in extending compassion and dignity to people who seek refuge. To that end, we believe processing of <b>refugee</b> claims and detention arrangements should be conducted in Australia, by Australian authorities, and with the prospect of permanent settlement here for those who demonstrate legitimate claims. The Age is not naive enough to presume that this could be adopted without the risk of a sudden flood of boats heading to our shores. It is why we have always argued for a regional solution, rather than a Fortress Australia mentality.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Labor adopts Mr Shorten's proposal, it will suggest a party that too readily ditches important principles for political gain.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gpol : Domestic Politics | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | nedi : Editorials | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | indon : Indonesia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AGEE000020150723eb7o00052</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AFNR000020150723eb7o00021" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>COAG gives Abbott another chance for a policy reset</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Laura Tingle  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1138 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>39</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Canberra observed A week that included the political disaster of Bronwyn Bishop ended well for Tony Abbott. But Bill Shorten and Labor now face a major ordeal this weekend.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister's week is ending much better than you might expect, given the political disaster that is Bronwyn Bishop. The capacity of the opposition's weekend to go south, on the other hand, cannot be under-estimated.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Every so often, an episode just takes off in politics and goes berserk in the public mind. The Speaker's love affair with the lifestyles of the rich and famous - encapsulated by her helicopter ride to Geelong and a $400,000 expenses bill for the last six months of 2014 - has been one of them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Tony Abbott's apparent inability to do anything about Bishop had left him looking particularly pathetic as the week began, and did him more damage with the average voter than the steady stream of different positions he and his Treasurer have held on tax reform in recent weeks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet, having found some spine while standing behind NSW Premier Mike Baird, the Prime Minister emerged from a meeting with state leaders with an agenda that gives him his best chance in months to formulate a workable policy plan for the next election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The communique from the leaders' retreat has all the usual platitudes. But what is most fascinating about it, is that its subject matter looks so much like something that would make a Labor prime minister proud.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It trumpets, "improved health services", new infrastructure, "fair and affordable access to housing", "training designed for real jobs", and "a school education system that helps Australian children stay ahead". To further mess with our minds, the Prime Minister declared he wanted to have "a well-informed and civil national conversation" rather than "a scare campaign".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Whatever the policy development process from here, the pragmatic, political realities of the leaders' retreat is that it has given the Coalition an opportunity to reset its policy positions on almost all the issues where it is traditionally vulnerable to Labor, and where it is still in trouble as a result of the budget decisions it took last year. Whether it be hospital funding, school funding, childcare or training, the government now has a "watch this space" sign up. And it has drawn the Labor states into a discussion which could leave federal Labor vulnerable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the same time, Mike Baird has given all our political leaders some room to manoeuvre on higher taxes - a space that has been a no-go zone for decades - and at the very least has reframed and revived the tax-reform debate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's not to suggest that Tony Abbott has actually done anything on any of this new agenda, just repositioned his rhetoric in a way which gives him room to reconstruct a political persona of positive policy rather than attack politics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This week's Newspoll has continued the message of most published polls in the last couple of months that the two political leaders' standing with the electorate continues to tank. In the last few weeks it has been Shorten who has been tanking more than Abbott. But both are continuing to go down and, for most voters, the effect is largely only to cancel each other out.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor holds a 53-47 lead on a two-party preferred vote over the Coalition. It is a lead big enough to be disconcerting for the government despite Bill Shorten's polling woes. But it is hardly reassuring for a Labor Party that knows this lead is heavily reliant on presumed preferences flows from the Greens rather than a robust primary vote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The standard way to contemplate a Labor leader's dilemmas going in to an ALP national conference, is in terms of the challenges they face with the factions, and finding some impossibly happy accommodation that balances the influence of the unions and the rest of the party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Bill Shorten's problems in 2015 are as much, if not more, about his relationship with the electorate as about relationships within the party. As a result, it is hard to remember a recent national conference which contained such a large number of unexploded bombs: <b>asylum</b> seekers; climate change; union power; the Chinese FTA; same-sex marriage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Already we have U-turns and new iterations of contentious policy coming out of this conference - think <b>asylum</b> seekers and climate change - not just challenges to the status quo. So it is not just the internal differences that are hazardous for Shorten, but whether he emerges with a platform that looks distinctly different from the government, and can use the conference to re-engage voters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For Shorten supporters, the high degree of difficulty contains a hope: the difficulties mean the argument that he is weak will not be sustainable post-conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Opposition Leader goes into the conference throwing bones to the Left and the Right. On boats, the headlines tell us Labor is doing a U-turn on <b>boat</b> turnbacks. (In reality, that is not quite what is happening. Shorten is proposing the platform stay unchanged, with no mention of turnbacks. But if a motion was moved to explicitly ban turnbacks, he would push for that to be voted down).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On climate change, there is the promise of a 50 per cent renewable energy target. There is a difficult rules debate to negotiate about the power of both unions and rank-and-file members. Even the future of the socialist objective is up for grabs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten sought to get the bad news on turnbacks out early, all the better to appease delegates with talk about doubling the <b>refugee</b> intake and changes to the offshore processing regime. But the reality is that Labor - recognising it was unable to find a workable policy in government and desperate to make the whole thing go away - is again being dragged into meek agreement with the Coalition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What makes this particularly disturbing is that any agreement on turnbacks would be made without anyone actually knowing what has happened "on water" since the end of 2013, except by accident.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There has been the further subsequent slide into secrecy and lack of interest in terms of offshore processing under the Coalition, whether that be the extraordinary legal sanctions now stopping workers in our offshore centres talking about what they see, or that refugees on Manus Island have now effectively been left to rot there since there is no immediate prospect PNG will actually settle them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What Labor does about these issues - and even the "Cambodian" solution - is just as important as <b>boat</b> turnbacks. The scope for the weekend to go horribly wrong is very high.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Laura Tingle is the Financial Review's political editor.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Fossil fuels burn up taxes</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>560 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Illawarra Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ILM</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Adrian Devlin's July 18 letter "Green power costs us" is an instructive example of the unfettered greed that has wrought such devastating effects on the environment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Using Mr Devlin's logic, the only consideration to be taken into account in the choice of power technologies is cost. Such a perspective admits of no responsibility for future generations and the environment they will inherit. He is willing to ransom the health of both for a short-term cost saving.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moreover, the implication in his argument that fossil-fuel energies, such as "cheap" coal, are not supported by the taxpayer is demonstrably false. The <span class="companylink">Australian Conservation Foundation</span> documents fossil-fuel subsidies of nearly $8 billion per annum.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The "global warming elites and green carpetbaggers" he criticises seem like amateurs compared with the mining lobby, which is much more effective at extracting concessions from the state.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The issue, therefore, isn't one of a free fossil-fuel market competing against a regulated, subsidised renewable market. It is about ensuring taxpayer dollars go to supporting the energies which enable us to most efficiently and successfully meet the challenge of climate change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Brett Heino, Dapto</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Unhealthy betrayal</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tony Abbott - no surprises, no changes to GST, no cuts to health and education - his pre-election promises were the exact opposite to his true intentions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The reality is Abbott's plan to force the states to fund health and education by cutting $80 billion funding has left a hole in state treasurers' forward budget estimations - to the extent that a 5 per cent rise in the GST appears to be the only avenue open to balance the books.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Once again the Coalition government has betrayed the people and left the states to deal with dysfunctional overcrowded hospitals and deteriorating education systems. The Coalition's blase contempt for Australians is overwhelming. Especially when it is considered that the sole reason for dumping its obligations to health and education is to channel the $80 billion saved towards balancing the budget.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">John Macleod, Berry</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Silence is sinister</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Adrian Devlin (Your Say, July 21) assumes rather a lot in his latest dispatch on the vexed question of <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Considering the reluctance, indeed the refusal, of the Abbott government to divulge any information regarding the fate and the number of <b>asylum</b> seekers who have arrived under the so-called "sovereign borders" policy, it is drawing rather a long bow to assume these people have been treated well and there have been no deaths at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Certainly many reports, regardless of government attempts to silence the whistleblowers, would suggest otherwise. The latest tiny <b>boat</b>, adrift hundreds of miles off the coast of WA, and the secrecy surrounding its fate and that of its occupants is a case in point.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many migrant policies under the Rudd/Gillard administration could and should have been done better but at least we, the public, were aware of the consequences of government policy and able to make informed assessments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Denise Meredith, Kanahooka</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Knickers in a twist</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I don't think the kids at Kanahooka High should be complaining. Friends of mine at a private girls' school in Sydney in the 1960s and 1970s were forced to endure underwear inspections to make sure they were wearing the regulation white knickers. Imagine that happening today!</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Chris Dodds, Towradgi</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Rank and file showdown for Shorten</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>369 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Illawarra Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ILM</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BILL Shorten will face a showdown on <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy and demands to hand over more power to ordinary Labor members when he fronts his first ALP national conference as leader.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Melbourne conference comes as Prime Minister Tony Abbott weighs up an early election in the first half of 2016, in which he'll take a hard line on national security and stopping the boats.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten is the first parliamentary ALP leader to be directly elected by a ballot involving both the federal caucus and grassroots members.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, 2013 leadership contender Anthony Albanese won the majority of grassroots votes, and his Left faction has eroded the long-held conference majority held by Mr Shorten's Right faction.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With no faction holding a majority, policies such as how to deal with <b>asylum</b> seekers will be hotly debated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While the 200-page draft platform commits Labor to supporting mandatory detention and offshore processing of <b>asylum</b> seekers, some argue for a less harsh community-based approach.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten, however, wants a future Labor government to have the option of using <b>boat</b> turn-backs to combat people smugglers. Right faction powerbroker Stephen Conroy believes that measure will just get across the line.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">New ALP national president Mark Butler, of the Left, will lead the charge to change party rules.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Butler, who will introduce Mr Shorten at the conference opening on Friday morning, will argue for a branch say in choosing Senate and upper house candidates. He also wants a proportion of conference delegates elected by branch members.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He argues it will boost membership - which Mr Shorten wants to double to 100,000 - as members will have direct say in the party's most important decision-making.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, Mr Shorten is expected to be less ambitious in his internal reform plans, settling for a trial of candidate selection "primaries" and making joining the party easier and cheaper.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In his opening, Mr Shorten is expected to talk about Labor's renewable energy ambition (50 per cent by 2030). He'll also contrast Labor's commitment to fairness and vision for the future with Mr Abbott being "stuck in the past". AAP</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shorten to force issue</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>RENEE VIELLARIS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>395 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Gold Coast Bulletin</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GCBULL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GoldCoast</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BILL Shorten is picking a fight with his own party on <b>boat</b> turn-backs to prove “he is a strong leader” and head-off challengers, critics say.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Opposition Leader, who is feeling the strain of being politically unpopular, is being accused of deliberately orchestrating a party crisis that would force potential challengers, many in the frontbench, to fall in line behind him.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten will adopt a ­watered-down version of the Coalition’s <b>boat</b> turn-back policy to help cool his enraged Left faction, which has been called to arms to “save the party from itself”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is believed he has the numbers to win the plan – but it will be close. Criticised by his own yesterday for embracing the “gutless” strategy, Mr Shorten faces having to reunite a divided party after it tears itself apart over immigration policy at its National Conference this weekend.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One insider said “he’s picked a fight to show he is a strong leader and is not dictated to by the party”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“People were agitating for his position and it was always going to raise its head at national conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“But people are starting to ask serious questions about his leadership. The problem is, the more voters know about Bill, the more they shift to the dissatisfied column.” The insider said foreign affairs spokeswoman Tanya Plibersek wanted to be leader but she did not have much support within Caucus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“She has the women and the Albo haters, like (former deputy prime minister Wayne) Swan and (former industry minister) Kim Carr.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Tanya might go with the flow on this one.” A senior Labor strategist said Mr Shorten feared that if he did not adopt the policy, and he won government, Labor would be targeted by people smugglers and tens of thousands of <b>asylum</b> seekers would again try to come to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“If we were returned to government, people smugglers would try it on again and it would be the first problem we would face,” the strategist said.To help appease the Left, Mr Shorten will pledge to end the secrecy surrounding Operation Sovereign Borders; will aim to strike a deal with Indonesia so the boats are turned back and shadowed to shore by Indonesia; repair Australia’s relationship with Indonesia; and will increase Australia’s <b>refugee</b> intake and pursue regional processing.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document GCBULL0020150724eb7o00035</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-COUMAI0020150723eb7o0005o" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>BATTLING BILL’S <b>BOAT</b> FIGHT TO SAVE SINKING LEADERSHIP</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>RENEE VIELLARIS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>225 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LABOR’S rank-and-file pop­ular choice as federal leader – Anthony Albanese – last night slapped down Bill Shorten over <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy, as a bitterly divided ALP erupted into civil war ahead of its national conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Albanese, a Left faction warrior who won the popular ALP leadership ballot in 2013, warned that his party was on the verge of succumbing to “the darker side” by adopting the Government’s <b>asylum</b>-<b>boat</b> turnback policy.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the eve of the conference, Mr Shorten has put his leadership on the line by reversing his previous position and insisting the ALP adopt the electorally popular Abbott hardline stance on boats. Already under leadership pressure, Mr Shorten will face a party divided along factional lines with the Left, led by Mr Albanese, outraged at the boats “ambush”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It is absolutely critical, critical, that we always remember our need for compassion and to not appeal to the darker side,” Mr Albanese told a Labor Party function last night.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday, Mr Shorten was accused of picking a fight with his own party on <b>boat</b> turnbacks to head off challengers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He’s picked a fight to show he is a strong leader and is not dictated to by the party,” one party insider told The Courier-Mail.REPORT P2</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | npag : Page-One Stories | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document COUMAI0020150723eb7o0005o</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-MRCURY0020150723eb7o0000c" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Tassie crew set for turnbacks mutiny</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NICK CLARK   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>414 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MRCURY</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TASMANIAN Labor delegates are set to be a significant barrier to Opposition Leader Bill Shorten’s attempt to adopt the Coalition Government’s <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> turnbacks policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The issue is expected to be voted on by 397 delegates at the ALP National Conference this weekend.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sources say the numbers are split closely on the issue, the Left faction having 196 delegates, Mr Shorten’s Right faction 197 and there being four independents.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, it is understood 19 of Tasmania’s 23 delegates are opposed to the policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senator Carol Brown and Franklin MP Julie Collins said they would vote against the policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We believe turning back <b>asylum</b> seekers on boats would be a breach of our international obligations and is an unacceptable risk to those men, women and children,” they said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We understand there are differing views in the party and we respect the right of others to hold different views, as we are sure they will respect ours.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We are of the view that a majority of Tasmanian delegates to the ALP national conference support this position and we intend to vote accordingly.” Labor is split broadly along factional lines, with the Left voting against the policy while the Right will vote in favour.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senator Anne Urquhart will also vote against the policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A key vote could be Denison MP Madeleine Ogilvie, who has campaigned on behalf of refugees, including against offshore processing, but who is associated with Right faction.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She was unable to be contacted yesterday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Right-faction senator Helen Polley would not reveal how she would vote. “This will be an important debate for the National Conference. I am looking forward to the debate and the announcement regarding refugees and what will happen under a Shorten Labor federal government,” she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Paul Griffin. of the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association, said he would support the policy advocated by Mr Shorten.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Delegate Jen Butler was unable to be contacted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senator Lisa Singh, who does not have a vote, said she would make her views plainly known at the conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I don’t support turnbacks and don’t think Labor should follow a cruel Government that demonises <b>asylum</b> seekers,” she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s multicultural affairs spokeswoman, Denison MP Madeleine Ogilvie, said the party could not “continue to allow what amounts to a trade in human misery across the high seas.”Senator Catryna Bilyk of the Right faction will not get a vote.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PROBYN COLUMN</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew Probyn   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1150 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>65</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015, West Australian Newspapers Limited   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A t the start of the press conference Tony Abbott had with the premiers in April, the Prime Minister offered one of those endearing, rare moments of political self-reflection.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I’m very conscious of the fact that for the next 12 months or so, Australia has an election-free zone and that should give us an unusual window of opportunity for significant structural reform if we are prepared to grasp that nettle,” Abbott said.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We all want to give it a go. We would like to be part of that group of heads of government that did take our country forward as a Federation rather than simply accept that what we’re doing now is just about as good as it gets.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott was referring to the special vulnerability that comes in the shadow of an election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Things that might just be possible in the best of circumstances become politically untenable when your opponent is gauging every moment for base opportunity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">April’s <span class="companylink">Council of Australian Governments</span> meeting came less than three weeks after the NSW election, won by Mike Baird and the Liberal Party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This came after the Queensland election in January, when Campbell Newman’s conservative government was turfed out, and a Victorian State election in November, when Daniel Andrews’ Labor Party bumped off a Liberal government after just one term.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now that the door was closed on the chilling winds of election season, Abbott hoped to get things done. On the GST. On the Federation. And on hospital and health funding.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister had allowed electoral concerns to stymie his political agenda once before, so now there was no time to lose.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The WA Senate repeat election in April last year, caused by a series of <span class="companylink">Australian Electoral Commission</span> cock-ups, meant the Government withheld public release of the Commission of Audit. Abbott & Co decided the WA Senate by-election necessitated delay of any discussion of some of its more contentious Budget ideas, worsening the impact of an already poisonous document. Abbott and Treasurer Joe Hockey almost lost their jobs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Well may the Prime Minister have been relieved to see a temporary reprieve from the deadening prospect of yet another poll.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott would have been pleased to see Baird use the eve of this week’s leaders’ retreat/COAG meeting to propose increasing the GST rate to 15 per cent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Finally, someone had taken the bait laid in the 2014 Budget that slashed health and education funding by $80 billion over the next decade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And the Prime Minister would have been tickled pink that South Australian Labor Premier Jay Weatherill and then ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr didn’t reject Baird’s proposal out of hand.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Finally we were getting somewhere. A proper debate. Political opprobrium potentially shared with the States.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Longer term vision had suddenly been able to elbow its way into an environment long cheapened by short-termism and the 24-hour news cycle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Heavens, Abbott could even pitch for a lasting, meaningful legacy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But then tragedy intervened.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Don Randall’s untimely death on Tuesday opened the door once again on that chilly electoral breeze.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ordinarily, a by-election in a seat with an 11.8 per cent margin would not be troublesome for a sitting Government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But by everyone’s reckoning, it’s likely to be very different in Canning.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The “Don factor” is worth as much as 4 to 5 per cent, seasoned Liberals reckon.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His tireless campaigning and rapscallion personality led to Randall winning booths in Armadale and Kelmscott that should have rightly been Labor’s.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On top of this, published polling shows there has been a sizeable swing against the coalition in WA, because of the dissipation of the Julia Gillard-Kevin Rudd dynamic, Abbott’s woes and the end of the construction phase of the mining boom.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The by-election will be tight. Perhaps uncomfortably tight for Abbott. It’s an irony not lost on senior Liberals that Randall, who sought to condemn Abbott’s leadership in February, may have cursed the PM in death.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The COAG communique issued by Abbott and the premiers yesterday showed commendable ambition. It confirmed a sizeable shortfall in revenue, with the funding gap in health alone estimated to be $35 billion a year by 2030.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The communique noted, “all leaders agreed to keep Commonwealth and State tax changes on the table, including the GST and the Medicare levy”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is bold stuff. But it is also necessary. The notion that the only real problem is government spending is exploded.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott, who savaged Labor “profligacy” under Rudd and Gillard, is now a paid-up member of the Australia-has-a- revenue-problem club.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott is aware of the difficulties ahead, yesterday sounding almost forlorn in his pleading to keep the debate sane and non-alarmist.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We’re at the beginning of a process,” he said. “We want to have a well-informed and civil national conversation about all these things and frankly, if we can have a conversation rather than a scare campaign, our country will be so much better off.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Labor under Bill Shorten appears determined to visit upon Abbott the same cheapjack populism that Abbott visited upon Labor when it was in government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With the Canning by-election in prospect in 50 days or so, Shorten’s already flagged campaign against a rise in the GST will be in full swing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Make no mistake. It’s important to Abbott that the Liberals hold on to Canning. It is debatable whether he could even survive if they lost it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet his Government desperately needs a second-term agenda, if not a raison d’etre other than not being Labor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Canning by-election will sorely test Abbott’s resolve, even if he does have the insulation of well-meaning premiers on the GST issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WA Liberals readily acknowledge the people in Canning are particularly susceptible to hip-pocket politics, as much as they were hot to trot on Labor’s border security failures at the 2013 election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten will seek to formally reposition the ALP on <b>asylum</b> seeker boats, asking the ALP national conference at the weekend to back <b>boat</b> turn-backs. If Shorten fails to win majority support at the conference on such an electorally critical issue, he will be fatally damaged.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Similarly, if Abbott abandons the honourable and much-needed pursuit of GST reform, he may as well step aside.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So far the pattern of Abbott’s time as Prime Minister has been to choose the path of least resistance, or simply rule things out for the sake of political expediency.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Reshaping the GST will demand the sort of hard sell that we haven’t seen from any prime minister since John Howard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Canning by-election will show us whether Abbott is up to the task.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">andrew.probyn@wanews.com.au</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>EDITORIAL23_07</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>466 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>64</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015, West Australian Newspapers Limited   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">B ill Shorten has reached a crucial moment as Federal leader of the Labor Party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His fate and indeed that of the party are tied very closely to what is about to unfold at the ALP’s national conference at the weekend.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of most importance is the party’s reaction to Mr Shorten’s belated confirmation that he supports going to the next election with a promise to adopt Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s hardline policy of turning back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The policy shift, first revealed by The West Australian last month, would enable him to counter Government attacks on Labor for being soft on border security.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Wednesday night Mr Shorten said his support for <b>boat</b> turn-backs involved the admission that Labor made mistakes on <b>asylum</b> issues when it was last in government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said he would argue for the turn-back policy at the national conference, setting himself up for a fierce clash with the party's Left.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Rudd and Gillard governments regularly attacked Mr Abbott's plans to push back or tow back <b>asylum</b> boats, saying it was an unworkable policy which would severely damage relations with Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In detailing the policy backflip, Mr Shorten said Labor was committed to the humane treatment of refugees, but also wanted to prevent drownings and make sure people smugglers and criminal syndicates could not exploit government policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There can be little doubt that Mr Abbott’s “stop the boats” policy is popular with the electorate at large and also that it played a big part in the coalition’s victory at the last election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As such, there is more than a touch of realpolitik about Mr Shorten’s <b>asylum</b> policy reboot.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It seems Mr Shorten has realised that if he is to win the keys to the Lodge, he cannot run the risk of allowing the coalition to again campaign against Labor on <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy, and he has put his leadership on the line on the issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Playing to his advantage this weekend is the fact that the wounds are still raw after the party’s recent history of bloody leadership changes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Although Mr Shorten has struggled to make an impact since taking over the party’s top job, voters would not take kindly to another round of Labor brawling, and party hardheads would recognise as much.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Should Mr Shorten carry the day on the boats issue, it is important that the party does not deviate in the lead-up to the next election, and indeed after the poll, particularly if the ALP returns to power.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was the right policy at the time of the last Federal election and it remains the right policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Much rests on Mr Shorten’s ability to bring others to the same conclusion.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Cnb Labor <b>asylum</b></span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nick Butterly   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>377 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015, West Australian Newspapers Limited   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten will today declare an ambition to render Tony Abbott a one-term prime minister as he seeks to stare down a revolt in the ALP’s Left faction over <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In his first speech to the ALP national conference as Labor leader, Mr Shorten will reaffirm his intention to make climate change the defining issue for next year’s Federal election.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There hasn’t been a one-term Federal government in Australia for more than 80 years … but it’s time there was,” Mr Shorten is expected to say.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He will commit to 50 per cent renewable energy by 2030 and to re-embrace an emissions trading scheme, despite the coalition being likely to renew its carbon tax attacks. Mr Shorten said Mr Abbott and his colleagues were “flat earthers”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“An ETS is not a tax and if Mr Abbott wants to make the next election a contest about who has the best policy solution for climate change, I’ve got a three-word slogan for him: bring it on,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the Opposition Leader faces headwinds, with members of his party’s powerful Left faction angry over his plan to embrace the coalition’s hardline turn-back policy after years of criticism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former Labor speaker Anna Burke said she was disappointed at her leader’s announcement trumpeting his turn-back plan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I’m not in a position to support that policy,” she told ABC Radio.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Federal Labor member for Fremantle Melissa Parke said there was no guarantee turning back boats saved lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The fact is that turning boats around and refusing to countenance what happens next is an abrogation of our duty to save lives imperilled at sea,” she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We are violating international law and our own moral code as well as common sense in adopting this approach.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Delegates to the weekend conference are almost evenly split between Left and Right, meaning Mr Shorten needs left-wing powerbrokers, including one-time leadership rival Anthony Albanese, to get enough votes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is understood the plan has already gone to shadow cabinet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As part of a concession to the Left, Mr Shorten is likely to offer to double Australia’s annual <b>refugee</b> intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">EDITORIAL P64</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Left slams Shorten on turnbacks</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>STEFANIE BALOGH, JOE KELLY   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>981 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor Left heavyweight Anthony Albanese has struck out at Bill Shorten’s policy ambush on turning­ back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats, placing the Opposition Leader’s policy gamble on border protection and his leadership under further pressure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Albanese, the most pragmatic of the Labor Left faction figures, took aim last night at Mr Shorten’s reversal on Tony Abbott­’s contentious turnbacks policy, announced in an interview on ABC’s 7.30 on Wednesday night.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I think that it is absolutely critical, critical, that we always remember our need for compassion and to not appeal to the darker side,’’ Mr Albanese said at a candidate function in Melbourne.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Albanese, who lost the leadership race to Mr Shorten after the 2013 election, also voiced “real concerns about the way that yesterday was conduct­ed in terms of the announcement on <b>asylum</b>-seekers”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten and Labor’s immig­ration spokesman Richard Marles were scrambling to piece together a package of concessions to the Left on <b>refugee</b> policy in a desperate attempt to prevent the party tearing itself apart.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Left erupted into open revolt­ yesterday, rejecting the policy of turning back <b>asylum</b>-­seeker vessels to Indonesia. Its members are particularly incensed at the way the policy was announced two days before the ALP national conference opens.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten’s miscalculation on the policy process, which has put his leadership on the line, guarantees he will be forced to fight on the conference floor for support for his policy U-turn. A defeat over the policy shift would render him politically impotent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His factional ally Stephen Conroy predicted that Mr Shorten would scrape through. Left delegates are expected to take the pragmatic approach of falling in behind the leader when the issue comes to a vote tomorrow, but not without first registering their anger.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Marles and Mr Shorten are working to appease the Left with a package that includes doubling the annual humanit­arian intake of refugees and intro­ducing more transparency on turnbacks to Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian understands that doubling the nation’s human­itarian intake, which currently stands at 13,750 places a year, would cost an extra $2.7 billion over the forward estimates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten and Mr Marles are also expected to convince the Left that a future Labor government would deal with <b>asylum</b>-seekers with compassion and generosity, including those languishing in offshore processing centres on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They are expected to promise to abolish temporary protection visas. The olive branch is designed to head off concerns that Mr Shorten’s policy shift runs counter to the party’s core values.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Marles, who has spent months arguing that Labor needs a compassionate but sensible approach­ to the difficult issue, said there was “simply no way’’ a future Labor government could reopen the <b>asylum</b>-seeker journey to Australia by sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We saw over the time of the former Labor government 1200 people lose their lives at sea,’’ he said. “We saw a situation where people-smugglers — not Oscar Schindlers, but criminal syndic­ates making huge profits — were preying upon some of the world’s most vulnerable people with the result that hundreds and ultimate­ly more than a thousand people died at sea.’’ He said it would be “profoundly immoral to see that happen again’’, adding, “knowing what we now know, were we to be a party to that in the future we would be rightly condemned’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There is nothing compassionate about putting people-smugglers back into business,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor for Refugees national co-convenor Robin Rothfield said he felt betrayed by Labor’s shift on <b>boat</b> turnbacks, and said Labor ­giants such as Ben Chifley and ­Arthur Calwell would be “turning in their graves’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten and Mr Marles are seeking to shift ground on immig­ration policy to inoculate Labor before the election due late next year, after the Coalition repeatedly attacked the opposition on its failure to back the policy of turning back boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under the previous Labor government, more than 50,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers arrived and 1200 people lost their lives at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten’s policy shift failed to convince Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, who said the policy would never be introduced, and argued that it was a combination of offshore processing, <b>boat</b> turnbacks and TPVs that served as deter­rents to people-smugglers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton said the difficulty for Mr Shorten was that he would “have a deputy prime minister in Tanya Plibersek who is vehemently opposed to turnbacks’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Plibersek’s office did not respond to repeated requests from The Australian when asked if she supported Mr Shorten’s position.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mark Butler, the party’s incoming national president who is from the Left, also did not respond to the question, although a spokeswoman said his commitments prevented him from addressing the issue before deadline.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Queensland Labor MP Graham­ Perrett said that he was against the policy backflip.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I don’t think you can effectively process people on the high seas,” Mr Perrett said. “While we are a signatory to the <span class="companylink">UN</span> convention on refugees we must treat every <b>asylum</b>-seeker appropriately and offer them due process.” Factionally unaligned West Australian Labor MP Alannah MacTiernan said she “absolutely” supported the retention of <b>boat</b> turnbacks to combat the threat posed by people-smugglers. However, she suggested the change would need to be accompanied by a “quid pro quo”, such as doubling Australia’s humanitarian intake.Ms MacTiernan warned that if Labor “took out the deterrents” from existing border protection policies the flow of <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats to Australia would likely resume­. Labor MP Terri Butler expressed­ concern about the conditions under which turnbacks would take place, but backed Mr Shorten and Mr Marles for retaining it as one of a series of options.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PARTY CUTS BILL ADRIFT</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DANIEL MEERS, NATIONAL POLITICAL REPORTER   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>926 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BILL Shorten is facing the prospect of being the Labor Party’s most isolated leader by selling out both the Left and Right factions in a bid to become the nation’s most powerful man.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor is set to adopt a ­watered down turnback policy that will use turnbacks as an “option” rather than ­official protocol, despite the Abbott government’s turnback policy resulting in not one single <b>asylum</b>-seeker ­arrival so far this year.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On top of this, the Left of the Labor Party will demand the <b>refugee</b> intake be doubled to 27,000 and temporary protection visas be dumped.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten faces the prospect that chief leadership rival Anthony Albanese could defy him and vote against the changes if the language goes too far.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Albanese, who has a high Greens vote in his Sydney electorate, told a group of Labor supporters last night he had “real concerns” about the announcement, and said Labor should not appeal to the “darker side”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In scenes akin to a civil war, Labor’s Left caucus and Right caucus held separate meetings yesterday to discuss critical issues ahead of the party’s national conference in Melbourne today.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Factionally, Left backbenchers openly slammed Mr Shorten for making the announcement before the conference. One even suggested the policy was illegal. Mr Shorten’s “flip, flop” policy approach has also ­angered the Right, which ­believes a plan to have 50 per cent renewable energy by 2030 is selling out to the Greens and fears the government could have a “field day” if the turnback policy is ­watered down.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Daily Telegraph understands Mr Shorten has gone public with the biggest policy backflip in modern politics because he is confident he has the numbers when the ALP conference votes on the issue tomorrow.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If he is rolled, it will deliver a fatal blow to his leadership. Victorian MP Anna Burke slammed Mr Shorten for making the policy announcement before it even went to the conference floor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I am very disappointed by this overnight announcement pre-empting what is going to happen at conference,” she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Hopefully the leader and the shadow would have put it up for debate on the conference floor to discuss.” Left faction heavyweight MP Andrew Giles said he had concerns about the legality of the issue: “I’m concerned about the breach, as I see it, of international law,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten took to breakfast television at first light in a bid to sell his policy change, but toned down his language from Wednesday night, during which he admitted Labor had made mistakes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I don’t think that when the previous policy was brought in, people foresaw the extent to which the people smugglers would exploit the system,” he said. “It’s important to be honest with my party and the nation and, if I was to form a government, I would want the option of <b>boat</b> turnbacks.” He said the ­humanitarian approach was to ensure no more people died at sea. ­Almost 1200 people drowned under Labor’s old policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I think what would be a more difficult situation is having a policy which would — which I believe would — incentivise people smugglers, criminals to exploit vulnerable people,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Federal Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said he did not believe Labor would ever turn back a <b>boat</b>. “Mr Shorten hasn’t even been able to hold a position from 7.30 last night to 7.30 this morning,” he said “These are the exact same words that Kevin Rudd used in 2007, and we saw under Labor when they were last in government 50,000 people arrive on 821 boats.” Labor Right faction heavyweight Stephen Conroy said Mr Shorten’s change on turnbacks would be supported. “I believe in the end Bill’s position will carry on the conference floor,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BILL OF WRONGS Where Shorten stands on the key ALP conference issues: <b>ASYLUM</b> SEEKERS After a massive backflip, Mr Shorten claims he now wants the adoption of the Coalition’s policy of turning back the boats to be considered as a Labor policy option. However, Labor’s left has reacted strongly against the proposal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How the conference will vote: Policy change should be supported by the barest of margin.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE ECONOMY Conference watchers expect this critical topic to be uncontentious with the issues of multinational taxation and tightening up superannuation concessions likely to receive wide party support.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How the conference will vote: Policies will be supported.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TRADE Mr Shorten allegedly supports the Abbott government’s free-trade deal with China, but is already succumbing to union pressure over concerns about Chinese firms being allowed to bring in Chinese labour at the expense of Australian jobs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How the conference will vote: Trade policy will be supported. CLIMATE CHANGE Mr Shorten’s proposal for a goal of 50 per cent renewable energy by 2030 has angered some in the Right of the party. The policy seems designed purely to win back votes lost to the Greens.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How the conference will vote: Climate change policy will be supported. MARRIAGE EQUALITY Mr Shorten supports gay marriage, but he is opposed to the Left’s push for a binding vote on the issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How the conference will vote: The Left’s push for a binding vote will fail. TERRORISM Mr Shorten has given only qualified support to stripping dual nationals with terror links of their Australian citizenship.How the conference will vote: Labor will continue bipartisan support on terrorism policy.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document DAITEL0020150723eb7o0005n</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020150723eb7o00016" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Commentary</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>AS SIR HUMPHREY WOULD SAY, COURAGEOUS DECISIONS</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAVID CROWE, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1011 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten throws Labor orthodoxy to the winds</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten has set himself on a dangerous path to the next election with plans that divide his own party while exposing himself to the same attacks that helped destroy his predecessors.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Never let it be said that Shorten wants to be a small target. The Opposition Leader has made a series of fateful decisions that are so gutsy they put his political future on the line.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On climate change, he expects his blue-collar base to accept an incredibly ambitious renewable energy target that would put severe pressure on mining and manufacturing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On border protection, he asks Labor to harden its heart against <b>asylum</b>-seekers by adopting <b>boat</b> turn-backs, a move that can be seen only as an endorsement of Tony Abbott’s approach.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The timing redoubles the risks. Shorten makes his opening address to the Labor national conference in Melbourne today in the knowledge that he is antagonising some of his own audience. The somnolent Labor conferences of Kevin Rudd’s time in power will be a distant memory if party delegates give voice to their convictions and heckle their leader.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is political courage at work here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten had the option of taking a softer approach at the national conference, such as getting others to lead a debate on turn-backs or making a vague promise on the renewable energy target.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead, he has presented the party with “captain’s picks” that increase the friction in the room because his divisive proposals come without consultation. Everything turns on the level of resistance he encounters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If he rides out a vigorous debate with his policies accepted, he will emerge on Sunday night with his leadership enhanced.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The alternative is a rebuke from the floor that cripples him. When politicians routinely are criticised for dodging unpopular decisions, Shorten is not playing it safe. Even those who do not like him or his policies may concede that.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The decision to accept <b>boat</b> turn-backs had to be made. The tough measures put in place by Scott Morrison in his time as immigration minister have demonstrably worked to stop <b>boat</b> arrivals. Labor cannot deny that result.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Voters would not forgive a Labor government if it repeated the mistakes of 2009 by governing with the heart rather than the head, only to see the boats start arriving again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten’s message to voters is that Labor has learned from its mistakes. Implicit in the message is that Shorten offers a break with the previous Labor government, even though voters will always see him as a contributor to the turmoil of those years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rather than leave it for immigration spokesman Richard ­Marles to carry all the burden of a policy backflip at the conference — other leaders would have done just that — Shorten is putting his authority at stake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is no escaping this decision. Future dissent over turn-backs will be easier to deal with if the conference approves the policy, even if the margin of victory is slim.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On renewables, however, the risks within the caucus and the union movement are nothing compared with the dangers in the electorate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When construction and manufacturing union leaders warn against a 50 per cent renewable energy target, voters can only assume there are threats to ordinary jobs from the Shorten proposal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The target is only an aspiration, which means it could end up being empty rhetoric. Labor matched John Howard and Peter Costello with “aspirational” tax cuts in 2007 and dropped them later. The problem with aspirations is that they do not stick; they do not convince anyone.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten now faces sneers from the Greens for setting an inadequate target and fears from the Coalition for setting his sights too high. But will his promise on renewables mean that much to ordinary voters? The electoral calculation is guesswork.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is a recklessness to the proposal that will inevitably lead to questions about Shorten’s political judgment. Why a 50 per cent goal in such a short timeframe? Why announce the policy without being able to explain the details? Why not canvass the change more widely to prepare the ground for a big call?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Asked on Wednesday what his ambitious target would mean for household budgets, Shorten basically admitted he did not know. “There’s a long way to go in terms of working through all the ideas and details,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is a huge vulnerability. After years of ridiculing Abbott for running scare campaigns on climate change policy, Labor now invites the Prime Minister to do it again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For months to come, Abbott will be able to warn of the cost to consumers from the higher target. He will have solid grounds, given the plan inevitably means shifting away from cheaper fossil fuels.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten counts on new technologies to lower the cost of renewables, but will these come fast enough to avoid a hit to households?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hugh Saddler, a researcher in the Centre for Climate Economics and Policy at the <span class="companylink">Australian National University</span>, estimated on The Conversation website this week that the 50 per cent target would add $160 a year to power bills in South Australia and $264 to those in Queensland.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those amounts seem small to solar-power advocates but will be seen differently by families worried about the cost of living.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is one clear benefit to Labor from the risky new renewables target: a softer emissions trading scheme.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Shorten is challenged from the Left for being too weak on emissions trading, he will respond by pointing to the grand ambition on the renewables target. Whether the target is ever met is another matter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shadow cabinet did not get a chance to clear the new target. If this backfires, Shorten will own the problem.The Opposition Leader’s allies believe voters are so keen on renewables that the target will be a winner even in the face of a powerful Coalition scare campaign. He can only hope they are right.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Herald Sun</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>900 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>34</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor faces own capsize IN attempting to dress himself in the Coalition’s clothes by adopting its policy on turning back the boats, Bill Shorten risks his leadership.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With the numbers too tight to call and his strategy of pre-empting a vote at this weekend’s ALP national conference by making his leadership part of the question, he is endangering party unity.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If he succeeds he will lead a party divided and if defeated he will have been publicly repudiated and his leadership destroyed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten can count. He proved this when he backed Julia Gillard against Kevin Rudd and when he betrayed Ms Gillard in order to resurrect Mr Rudd. This was to save Labor seats at the election won by the Coalition and partly on Mr Abbott’s pledge to stop the boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Mr Shorten carries the day at Melbourne’s Convention Centre, there are those on the Left who will never forgive him for forcing them to make a decision that humiliates them. It may be the party that has been cast adrift.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the numbers are rubbery. Mr Shorten’s deputy, Tanya Plibersek, is vehemently opposed to what is being suggested and is already showing herself willing to challenge Mr Shorten. That was made plain enough when she called for a binding vote on gay marriage when Mr Shorten was out of the country and she was acting leader. Mr Shorten had pledged a conscience vote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now, Anthony Albanese, who contested the leadership against Mr Shorten after the 2013 election defeat, is expected to oppose him. He, too, is a leadership contender.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten and shadow immigration minister Richard Marles have stirred a hornets’ nest with the Left, which will regard their proposal as a betrayal of trust.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Whatever the outcome of one of the most emotional debates likely to confront the party, trust has emerged as a commodity Mr Shorten finds ebbing from his leadership. His decision to embrace the Abbott Government’s turn-back-the-boats policy involves as much pragmatism as passion and people in his own party know it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What at first glance seems a bipartisan position, dressed with compassionate phrases about saving <b>asylum</b> seekers from drowning, is instead a subtle and possibly misleading document.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If passed there is no guarantee a single people smuggler’s <b>boat</b> will be turned back. The proposal is for an “option” only and one that may never be taken up.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Mr Shorten is to become prime minister at next year’s election, the people smugglers will be quick to test his resolve. That is the way the people smugglers work. They did it when Kevin Rudd became prime minister, when Julia Gillard replaced him and when Mr Rudd returned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was in spite of his threat that no <b>asylum</b> seeker would ever be allowed to settle in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Gillard had tried to stop the boats by doing a deal with Malaysia that was a trade in human lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Her position was: we will take a few thousand <b>asylum</b> seekers who have been declared genuine refugees if you will take a few hundred <b>asylum</b> seekers who have arrived here on smugglers’ boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was thrown out by the High Court. Australia must take its fair share of refugees and does so.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Encouraging people smugglers to bring people by <b>boat</b> ahead of those who might wait in camps in Indonesia and other countries was no policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What is proposed by Mr Shorten and Mr Marles may be no policy if the “option” of doing so is never exercised. This sort of backdoor diplomacy only presents Labor as a party prepared to go wherever the tide of <b>asylum</b> seekers takes it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten is asking people to trust him, but that is a commodity he is finding is in short supply.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Food for thought WHILE there are serious concerns about food standards at Melbourne’s five-star Langham Hotel, there are also issues of secrecy surrounding the reporting of what may have been discovered in the kitchens by health inspectors.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The public will wonder why there has been such reluctance on the part of <span class="companylink">Melbourne City Council</span> and the <span class="companylink">Department of Health and Human Services</span> to release details of what they have found following a major outbreak of salmonella.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Herald Sun started making inquiries about a spike in salmonella poisoning revealed in <span class="companylink">Department of Health</span> figures. That led to the luxury Southbank hotel being identified as the source of 66 people becoming sick and 14 going to hospital.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The worst of these cases was a pregnant mother who became seriously ill after attending a baby shower at the hotel. Doctors were forced to deliver her baby five weeks premature.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Herald Sun has discovered that cockroaches were found in the Langham kitchens more than a year before this month’s salmonella outbreak and that the hotel failed a number of <span class="companylink">Melbourne City Council</span> food safety inspections last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Victoria’s Food Act prevents details from being publicly released but there can be no good reason for hiding what all of the guests and the public are entitled to know. The Herald Sun calls on the Victorian Government to immediately review this restrictive legislation in the interests of public health.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TOUCHED BY THE ROAD TOLL THIS YEAR 142 LAST YEAR 140 Victorian deaths in 2015, compared with the same day last year</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Coming from a place of compassion, Shorten is doing his best to polish the turd of turnbacks</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Tory Shepherd   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>713 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IN December 2010, 50 people drowned as their <b>boat</b> smashed against the Christmas Island shore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They screamed before water filled their lungs. Horrified witnesses watched the <b>asylum</b> seekers go under, never to resurface. Some were smashed against the rocks.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A coroner found children, toddlers and babies were among those who “died from drowning or injuries suffered as a result of impact with the shore or debris in the ocean”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The tragedy involved the largest loss of human life in a maritime incident in Australian territorial waters during peace time in 115 years,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Christmas Island tragedy is a large part of the reason Labor is now tearing itself apart over its <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Leader Bill Shorten and immigration spokesman Richard Marles want <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> turnbacks to remain as an “option”, a U-turn on Labor’s existing policy. To be accurate, its existing platform does not mention turnbacks at all, but Labor has been a vocal critic of the Government’s policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some want turnbacks to be banned in the policy platform, and it is this that has forced Mr Shorten and Mr Marles to come out and say they want to keep the option open.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is a fact that the boats – like the one carrying those ­<b>asylum</b> seekers towards their deaths – have stopped ­arriving.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Marles says there’s “no way” they could reopen that passage from Indonesia to Australia. It would be “profoundly immoral”. Labor concedes more than 1000 people died at sea under its policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“A terrible loss of life took place on Labor’s watch,” Mr Marles said. “It is really important that we do not see a loss of life at sea again and that we do not put people smugglers back into business.” The political pragmatists know that, should they win power, and should another <b>boat</b> smash on our shores, the cry of “the blood is on your hands” will echo around the country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of the 400 delegates who will turn up to the ALP national conference, which starts today, it’s not clear how many are that pragmatic. The vote is likely to be close, and passionate. Lives are at stake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lives are at stake either way. If Labor does decide it wants to intercept those boats and send their human cargo back to Indonesia, it will certainly save lives. But it will also cost an unknown number of lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of those people who, with the hope of reaching Australia taken away, stay in life-threatening situations. Of those ­people who die holed up in the Indonesian slum town of ­Cisarua waiting for resettlement, or from the appalling conditions in offshore detention centres, or who set off from Indonesia in boats that don’t make it to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Marles and Mr Shorten are doing their best to polish the turd of turnbacks. They want to emphasise they are coming from a place of compassion, and hope that contrasts them enough with the Government to keep voters onside.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They are flagging a bigger intake of refugees who come to Australia through the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>. They’re talking about more humane offshore detention centres. They’re promising <b>asylum</b> seekers will be processed more quickly. They’re saying, again and again, that it’s just one of the options.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They would do it reluctantly, their hands forced.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“All we can do at the end of the day is make sure we have a generous offering … and (do that) in a way which reduces the sum of global human misery,” Mr Marles said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both sides know there is a swag of votes for those who are tough on <b>asylum</b> seekers. The Government has dabbled in a little demonising, while the Opposition is cleaving to compassion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It doesn’t really matter what they say, though, when their policies are the same.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With <b>boat</b> turnbacks, it’s not so much monkey see, monkey do – both sides have put plenty of thought into their policies, and continue to agonise over them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s more “see no evil, hear no evil”. With turnbacks, deaths are hidden and immeasurable.You can’t hear their screams from the Christmas Island pub.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>MATES JUMP SHIP</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Ellen Whinnett and Rob Harris   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>683 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BILL Shorten’s front bench has ruptured as shadow ministers, including Anthony Albanese, prepare to oppose his plan to turn back <b>asylum</b> seeker boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Herald Sun revealed yesterday that the Opposition Leader and his immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, would include turn-backs in Labor’s election policy.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The policy shift went to sha-dow cabinet, and they believed they had colleagues’ support.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Labor’s Left yesterday reached an in-principle agreement to oppose the turn-backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some on the Left are furious they were “ambushed’’ on the eve of this weekend’s national conference, the forum at which policy platforms for 2016’s federal election are finalised.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Herald Sun understands Mr Albanese, a Left-wing powerbroker and a 2013 leadership rival of Mr Shorten’s, will not support <b>boat</b> turn-backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He would not comment to the Herald Sun, but told a party function in Melbourne last night he was unhappy with how the proposal was announced.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I think that it is absolutely critical — critical — that we always remember our need for compassion, and to not appeal to the darker side,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sources on the Left said he was furious at being “verballed’’ by Mr Shorten and Mr Marles.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Delegates to the conference were meeting into last night as members of the party’s Right worked to get some sections of the Left either to support turn-backs or run dead on the issue if it made it to a vote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Left-aligned delegates control 196 votes, the Right 197, and four delegates are unaligned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While the Right believes it can carry a vote, both sides agree it would be tight.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A loss for Mr Shorten would critically undermine his authority and leadership. The Left is due to decide today whether it would instigate a vote to amend the current policy platform, which is silent on the issue of turn-backs. Some Labor MPs were furious at Mr Marles and Mr Shorten for the “unexpected” policy announcement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CONTINUED PAGE 6 FROM PAGE 1 “It’s fair to say many of us feel betrayed over it, and think he (Mr Marles) has sold us out,” one MP said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bendigo MP Lisa Chesters, a member of the Labor for Refugees working group, said the Left and Right had milked <b>asylum</b> seeker issues “for their own political purposes”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Left-aligned Ms Chesters said it remained a complex issue for the community and for Labor. “We need re-engagement with our ­regional neighbours, and a ­regional solution,” she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten stood by the decision yesterday, once again conceding the Coalition turn-back policy had helped defeat people-smuggling.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I think it’s important to be honest with my party and the nation and, if I was to form a government, I would want the option of <b>boat</b> turn-backs where safe to do so on the table,” he told Channel 7.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I want to see us do our fair share to help the problem of refugees and help the challenges people face when displaced from their own countries,” Mr Shorten said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“But I also think we have an obligation to make sure that people are safe,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Right-wing powerbroker and Shorten ally ­Stephen Conroy said that if turn-backs were safe, they should be available as a policy ­option. “We have tortured ourselves — debated this for many, many years — but what we saw during our last government was, through a combination of factors, ­nearly 1200 people died at sea,” Senator Conroy said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Now, that’s not acceptable for any person in the Labor Party. I believe, in the end, Bill’s position will carry the conference floor and we will then be able to move on.’’ Mr Marles said ruling out such a policy would be a “gross mistake” because it would put people smugglers “back in business”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Marles denied some in the party had been blindsided, saying there had been an “exhaustive process” of consultation with party members, MPs, and trade unions.ellen.whinnett@news.com.au</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>There’s no simple answer, on land or sea</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ELLEN WHINNETT   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>969 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>34</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TURN back the boats. Four little words carrying such emotional and political baggage. The Labor leadership is now trying to convince its party it should go to the 2016 election with a policy that includes turning back boatloads of <b>asylum</b> seekers intercepted on their way to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration spokesman Richard Marles has spent almost two years carefully developing a policy under which Labor would adopt hardline approaches to ensure the deadly journey to Australia from Indonesia does not restart. He has acknowledged that turn-backs, along with offshore processing and refusing to allow <b>boat</b> arrivals to settle in Australia, deters people smugglers.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To try to ease concerns in the Labor Party about the policy, Marles has also developed proposals to increase Australia’s humanitarian intake, provide better and more humane management of the Manus and Nauru offshore detention centres, and the <b>asylum</b> claims of those held there, and greater transparency around operational activities such as turn-backs. But it’s not clear if that will ease the concerns of the Left of his party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">First, the hard political reality: Labor will not win an election with an <b>asylum</b> seeker policy that voters think is soft. Like same-sex marriage and climate change, how to deal with <b>asylum</b> seekers is a touchstone issues in Australian politics that voters feel strongly about. For many people, <b>boat</b> arrivals are simply unwelcome.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That is despite Australia being relatively unaffected by it in real terms, even under the worst years of Labor, when 50,000 people turned up in boats over six years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Compare that with, say, Jordan, where 20 per cent of its population is currently made up of Syrian refugees. If that was replicated in Australia, we’d have five million refugees here seeking resettlement. Consider also the world’s biggest <b>refugee</b> camp, Dadaab, in Kenya, currently hosting 350,000 Somalian refugees. That’s bigger than the city of Geelong.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many Australians are deeply uncomfortable with people arriving in an unmanaged way on boats, particularly when they destroy their identification papers. Apart from potential security threats, many of those arrivals are suspected of being economic migrants, in search of better jobs and a more affluent life. And newly settled refugees and other migrants, particularly in western Sydney and parts of Melbourne, believe them to be queue jumpers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">John Howard nailed the voter sentiment back in 2001 when he said “we will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tony Abbott’s election success in 2013 was at least partly because of his promise (delivered with absolute efficiency by former immigration minister Scott Morrison) to stop the boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But leaving the politics aside, Labor is also considering what it believes is the right thing to do when it comes to helping refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">UN</span> High Commission for Refugees currently has concerns for the safety of 13 million refugees worldwide. But each year, only 100,000 registered refugees, whose bona fides have been established, are settled in new countries. The vast majority of those desperate, displaced people will not be resettled in a safe, new country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WHAT Marles has been grappling with is what Labor can reasonably do to try to assist that global humanitarian crisis. Clearly, he’s decided that policies which encourage people to pay people smugglers to take them on the dangerous journey between Java and Christmas Island is not the way to go. And with 1200 people dead at sea after their leaky boats failed to make the journey on Labor’s watch, Marles and the party do not want any more deaths.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He knows he can’t give an inch to people smugglers who will slither through the tiniest policy crack to resume their evil trade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s a very difficult policy area for Labor, which has been outflanked on the Left and Right since mishandling its response to the Tampa crisis back in 2001.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After the Herald Sun revealed the new turn-back policy on Wednesday night, the Greens’ immigration spokeswoman, Sarah Hanson-Young, accused Labor of essentially condemning people to die.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“<b>Boat</b> turn-backs are all about pushing refugees away, to let them die in someone else’s waters. Labor’s capitulation to Abbott won’t end well,’’ she tweeted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition conversely accused Labor of being too soft, with Immigration Minister Peter Dutton saying Labor had no enthusiasm for turn-backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This is a completely soft approach and you cannot take a soft approach with people smugglers because they are organised criminals,’’ he told the ABC.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Too soft. Too hard. And that’s from outside critics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What about those on the inside? Labor is deeply divided on this issue and Marles’ policy, which belongs equally to Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, is high-risk.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Anna Burke, a former member of the Right who is now factionally unaligned, has publicly declared her opposition to turn-backs. Left faction convener Andrew Giles has spoken against it. Both are MPs in Shorten’s Opposition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Labor Party national conference will likely vote on the issue tomorrow. While the conference delegates are almost equally divided between Left and Right, people will not vote strictly along factional lines. Right operatives believe Shorten will carry the numbers. Shorten expects those of the Left who are senior members of the Opposition, such as Anthony Albanese and Tanya Plibersek (Shorten’s deputy), to vote with him. But Albanese, at least, will not. If Shorten doesn’t win, his leadership authority will be seriously undermined.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And mishandling of <b>asylum</b> seeker policy will have contributed to the destruction of yet another Labor leader.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ELLEN WHINNETT IS NATIONAL POLITICAL EDITOR</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">20% OF JORDAN’S POPULATION IS MADE UP OF SYRIAN REFUGEES</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">350,000WORLD’S BIGGEST <b>REFUGEE</b> CAMP IN DADAAB, KENYA</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>IT’S REALLY ALL ABOUT VOTES</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Ellen Whinnett and Rob Harris   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>615 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LABOR’s national conference is shaping up as a bruising ­affair, with deep division ­apparent in the party over the issues of <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> turn-backs and same-sex ­marriage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Almost 400 conference delegates and hundreds of observers are in Melbourne for the conference, held once every three years, to hammer out policy platforms ahead of the 2016 election.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A likely vote tomorrow on turn-backs will be a flashpoint, with numbers split almost evenly over the proposals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Same-sex marriage will also be a bitterly fought contest, with the Left deciding yesterday to bring on a vote requiring all Labor MPs to support it if the vote comes before Parliament. It has not yet been decided if the binding vote would apply in this Parliament, or if a conscience vote would be able to continue until the next election, before reverting to a binding vote in support of same-sex marriage in the next ­Parliament.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, from the Right, ­opposes a binding vote on the issue — although he supports same-sex marriage — and it is expected the vote will fail. His deputy, the Left’s Tanya Plibersek, has stated her support for a binding vote but her position last night was not known.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten will deliver the opening address today and seek to pre-empt attacks on his proposed emissions trading scheme. He will attempt to distance the controversial policy from the Gillard government’s failed carbon tax.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We will not be intimidated by ridiculous scare campaigns,” he will say. “An ETS is not a tax.” Fierce opposition among trade unions towards the looming Chinese free trade deal has also threatened to undermine Labor’s free trade agenda.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten gave some ground to an aggressive campaign from <span class="companylink">Australian Council of Trade Unions</span> members ­earlier this week when he revealed Labor would fight in Parliament to rewrite ­labour ­standards, conditions and skills testing in the multi-­billion-dollar agreement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than a thousand union and community members will protest against elements of the deal outside the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre today.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AUGUST 2001 Howard government denies permission for Norwegian MV Tampa to enter Australian waters SEPTEMBER 2001 Pacific Solution passed to introduce offshore processing SEPTEMBER 2007 Rudd government elected — ends offshore processing, closes Manus Island and Nauru detention centres JULY 2011 Gillard government signs people-swap deal with the Malaysian government dubbed the Malaysian Solution AUGUST 2011 High Court rules proposal to send unwanted <b>asylum</b> seekers to Malaysia is illegal JULY 2013 PM Kevin Rudd announces Regional Resettlement Arrangement with Papua New Guinea, saying any <b>asylum</b> seeker who arrives by <b>boat</b> will not be settled in Australia SEPTEMBER 2013 Abbott Government elected. Implements Operation Sovereign Borders, which turns back boats</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WHAT THEY SAY OPPOSITION LEADER BILL SHORTEN “The proposition of turn-backs wasn’t putas being possible. But clearly it is’’ LABOR IMMIGRATION SPOKESMAN RICHARD MARLES “We also know that since 2013 with the way in which turn-backs have been conducted, no one has lost their life at sea, and no one has lost their life in the course of a turn-back operation’’ IMMIGRATION MINISTER PETER DUTTON “This is not a definite policy proposal and the Labor Party’s track record of failure when it comes to border protection, I think, should sound alarm bells for people’’ GREENS IMMIGRATION SPOKESWOMAN SARAH HANSON-YOUNG “Many Labor supporters will be heartbroken to see the ALP fail to stand up to Tony Abbott’s anti-<b>refugee</b> rhetoric’’ LABOR DEFENCE SPOKESMAN STEPHEN CONROY “Bill’s position will carry the conference floor’’</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By James Massola, Tom Allard
 and Michael Gordon   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>855 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A005</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten's leadership rival turns back on new boats bid</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By James Massola, Tom Allard and Michael Gordon</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's handling of Labor's controversial decision to adopt Tony Abbott's policy to turn back <b>asylum</b> seeker boats has drawn fire from his 2013 leadership rival Anthony Albanese.In a short speech at a function on the eve of the Labor Party conference in Melbourne, Mr Albanese said he had "real concerns about the way that yesterday was conducted in terms of the announcement on <b>asylum</b> seekers". "I think that it is absolutely critical, critical that we always remember our need for compassion and to not appeal to the darker side." The comments are a rebuke to Mr Shorten and come as the Opposition Leader prepares to challenge the Prime Minister to "bring on" an election fought over climate change, declaring "it's time" Australia had its first one-term government in more than 80 years. Mr Shorten will place climate policy front and centre in his first major speech as Labor leader at the party's national conference on Friday. He will cite the one-term Queensland and Victorian governments in a speech that will argue Australia "can't afford another round of cuts and chaos" under</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">the Prime Minister. Mr Shorten unveiled a bold climate policy goal this week that will require half of Australia's large-scale energy production to be generated using renewable sources within 15 years. And at the conference he will say that "the evidence is in, the science is settled. Climate change is not 'absolute crap', it is an inescapable fact. And if we take a do- nothing approach, there will be more and more extreme weather." "A Shorten Labor government will build an emissions trading scheme for Australia. And we will not be intimidated by ridiculous scare campaigns. "Let me say this to our opponents, in words of one syllable: An ETS is not a tax. And if Mr Abbott wants to make the next election a contest about who has the best policy solution for climate change ï¿½ I've got a three-word-slogan for him: Bring It On." But the Opposition Leader is facing a gruelling three-day test of his leadership, with damaging debates over <b>asylum</b> seeker policy, whether or not to bind all MPs to support same-sex marriage and trade policy among the issues that will test his authority. Indonesia also expressed its surprise and disappointment on Thursday at Mr Shorten's changed position on <b>boat</b> turn- backs, saying the policy risked lives and shifted the burden of solving people</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">smuggling back on Indonesia. The Labor Left was mobilising on Thursday over the issue, preparing a formal motion to forbid the ALP from adopting a <b>boat</b> turn-back policy. One Left MP told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> that "we are determined to oppose turn- backs and we have a couple of days to socialise it and work out how it plays out". But Right faction powerbrokers rallied to Mr Shorten on Thursday, after he said on Wednesday he wanted the party to adopt the turn-back policy because it "wants to defeat the people smugglers and we want to prevent drownings at sea". Labor's national platform does not mention the <b>boat</b> turn-back policy, which the Abbott government has successfully implemented, and the Right believes it could secure up to 215 of the 397 votes to block any Left move to oppose turn-backs. As a compromise designed to appease the Left, the ALP is also expected to back a move that would double Australia's <b>refugee</b> intake from 13,750 to 27,000 people over time, as part of a suite of new immigration policies that also include the abolition of temporary protection visas, and greater transparency and independent oversight of detention centres.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At least one Left faction powerbroker predicted Mr Shorten would carry the day on the issue. However, Labor backbencher and former Speaker Anna Burke warned that voters may abandon the party following Mr Shorten's decision. She criticised the Labor leader for pre- empting this weekend's debate and said: "I'm not in a position to support this policy." She said a genuine regional processing centre was the answer to stop people smugglers, not turning back boats, which would be dangerous for <b>asylum</b> seekers and the Australian navy. In Indonesia, Andi Rachmianto, the director of international security at Indonesia's department of foreign affairs, said the <b>boat</b> turn-back policy was against the principle of "burden sharing"."This kind of policy, the turn-back policy, is unilateral in nature and is shifting the burden back to Indonesia," he said. "When they are sending back the boats with tens or hundreds of migrants back to Indonesia, to our borders [and travelling as far as] 200 miles, it is risking their lives, especially after they have been already sailing for a few days or one week. This is a humanitarian concern that we would like to underline."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Political aims threaten to sink <b>refugee boat</b> policy</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Gordon   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>648 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Analysis</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">'The problem at the heart of Labor's border protection policy is that Bill Shorten wants to replicate Tony Abbott's boats policy without the sharp and ugly edges: the secrecy, the selfishness and the cruelty.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The stated objective is to avoid deaths at sea, but the political aim is to neutralise one of Abbott's most potent political weapons at the federal election due next year: the claim that only he has the mettle to stop the boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By announcing the shift before Labor's national conference debates <b>asylum</b> seeker policy on Saturday, Shorten is sending a blunt message to those within the party who are alarmed that he would embrace the idea of turning back boats intercepted at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If they rebel against the policy and were to prevail they would deliver a potentially fatal blow to his prospects of becoming prime minister. This is why the expediency of the policy extends to the pre-emptive way it was announced.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The context is purely political - to restrict the areas of difference to those where Shorten feels more comfortable, like climate change - but the turn-back policy is vulnerable on two fronts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first front is where it deviates from the Coalition's militaristic model, opening Shorten to the charge that his is a pale imitation of the policy that stopped the boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Richard Marles, Labor's immigration spokesman, says the public is entitled to know the facts about turn-backs and what is happening in detention centres; Abbott and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton say secrecy is essential.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Marles says people can be humanely kept in indefinite detention on Nauru and Manus Island, when this has proved a contradiction in terms.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The principle underpinning the transfer of vulnerable people to these places is simple: the harsher the conditions, the more effective the deterrent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The second front is where the policy of turn-backs deviates from best international practice, as articulated by the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>, the <b>refugee</b> agency whose views would be afforded much more weight if Labor wins power.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the agency's regional office in Canberra reiterated on Thursday, turn-backs are contrary to the spirit of the 1951 <b>Refugee</b> Convention and set a very bad example.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten's strategy is to neutralise the issue before the election and transition to something better, that still minimises the risk of deaths at sea, if he wins power. If he needs a reminder of the scale of the task, Saturday's debate should provide one.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WHAT THEY SAID</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">September 2011: under the Gillard government, then Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said:</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The evidence is overwhelming that turning back the boats is a crude policy that is neither safe nor viable. Yet this is where the elegance of the Malaysia transfer arrangement shines through — turning back people in a safe and orderly way.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">July 2013: under the Rudd government Immigration Minister Tony Burke said: “The Coalition’s plan to increase off shore processing was effectively an admission “that turning back the boats won’t work”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">November 2013: New Labor leader Bill Shorten declared: “The Abbott government’s border protection policy is in tatters,” after then Immigration Minister Scott Morrison revealed that Indonesia had twice rejected requests from the Abbott government to accept <b>asylum</b> seekers rescued by Australian authorities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">November 2013: Labor’s immigration spokesman Richard Marles said: “We have had Indonesia from day one saying that they won’t accept tow-backs. It was inevitably going to fail. And that’s what we saw.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">July 2015: Mr Shorten said: “I can no longer escape the conclusion that, if Labor forms government, it needs to have all the options on the table. It’s not easy, though, because it involves the admission, I think, that mistakes were made when Labor was last in government.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Boats backflip means more votes for Greens</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Richard Willingham State Political Correspondent   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>181 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten's support for <b>boat</b> turn-backs will help the Greens win votes in Victoria but should not cost Labor any lower house seats at the next election, experts and strategists say.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the policy will kill off any hope of a Labor resurrection in the seat of Melbourne, held by the Greens' Adam Bandt since 2010.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><span class="companylink">Monash University</span>'s Paul Strangio said the policy was a sign of Labor's focus on NSW and Queensland at the next election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Every time Labor has endeavoured to narrow the policy gap with the Coalition on <b>asylum</b> seekers there is little evidence it has done them any favours politically," Dr Strangio said. He said the challenge for Labor was whether they could sell the nuanced part of the policy such as regional processing and a boost to the humanitarian intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor's candidate for Melbourne, Sophie Ismail, in a statement on her <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> page, declared she did not support unilateral <b>boat</b> turn-backs.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shorten to issue ETS 'bring it on'</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Phillip Coorey Chief political correspondent   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor leader Bill Shorten will announce on Friday that if elected he will announce a low-cost emissions trading scheme dealing in international permits to accompany a massive boost in renewable energy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten will also announce a doubling of the <b>refugee</b> intake in a proposal, aimed at placating the party's restive Left faction, as well as voters who may defect to the Greens.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Labor leader will use his opening address to the three-day conference on Friday to steel the party for another election fight over climate change by daring Tony Abbott to "bring it on".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He will formally announce Labor will adopt a 50 per cent renewable energy target by 2030 as well as the low-cost ETS to allow Australian business to offset emissions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Boosting renewable energy will be at the heart of our plan to cut pollution," Mr Shorten will say, before confirming there will be an ETS.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Around 1 billion people and more than 40 per cent of the world's economy have already embraced the opportunities of emissions trading schemes. We must give Australian businesses the opportunity to engage with this global market.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"A Shorten Labor government will build an emissions trading scheme for Australia and we will not be intimidated by ridiculous scare campaigns."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor will also double the number of refugees in the annual humanitarian intake to 27,000 as a trade-off to adopting the Coalition's hardline policy of turning back <b>asylum</b> seeker boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sources said that under this policy change, a Labor government would raise the intake from 13,750 people to 27,000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten announced on Wednesday that if he were prime minister, he would want the option of turning back boats, which was a key part of the success of the Coalition's policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Left faction had been seeking to amend the party's platform to rule out turn-backs. Mr Shorten wants the policy left blank, which would allow a Labor prime minister the discretion to use the policy if needed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I think it's important to be honest with my party and the nation and, if I was to form a government, I would want the option of <b>boat</b> turn-backs, where safe to do so, on the table," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With no faction in control of the conference floor for the first time in three decades, the vote is expected to be tight with most of the left wing to vote against the leader.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten's leadership would be mortally wounded if he lost but multiple sources said Mr Shorten would prevail. Factional bosses and members of Mr Shorten's shadow ministry, including those from the Left such as deputy leader Tanya Plibersek and Senator Kim Carr, were among those negotiating behind the scenes on Thursday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shadow defence minister Stephen Conroy, a leader of the Victorian right wing, said the numbers were "very close" but he believed Mr Shorten's position would prevail.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There is a very difficult debate for the Labor Party. We have tortured ourselves debating this for many, many years but what we saw during our last government was through a combination of factors nearly 1200 people died at sea. Now that's not acceptable for any person in the Labor Party."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Fears for <b>asylum</b> seekers suspected of being held on HMAS Choules</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Leanne Nicholson   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>298 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian advocates for a group of Vietnamese <b>asylum</b> seekers detected off the coast of Western Australia this week believe they are being held on HMAS Choules, the vessel used in April to hand back another group of refugees from Vietnam.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Vietnamese community leaders and advocates based in Australia said the <b>asylum</b> seekers, including children, risked imprisonment and interrogation if returned to their home country, similar to a Vietnamese <b>refugee</b> they know of who was returned in April.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Refugee</b> Rights Action Network spokeswoman Sally Thompson said that despite assurances by federal Immigration and Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton that no harm would come to <b>asylum</b> seekers, network members were aware of harassment and repeated interrogations of those returned in April.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We know of at least one man who is still in jail and whose mother, who hadn't attempted to leave Vietnam, has been intimidated by police," she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Thompson said at least eight children and about 30 adults were among the passengers on the <b>boat</b> turned back off Dampier.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Baby Y Nhu and four-year-olds Khoi and Chuong are amongst those on board the Vietnamese <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> intercepted by WA Water Police off the coast," Ms Thompson said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a letter to Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Mr Dutton on Wednesday, Vietnamese Community in Australia president Tri Vo said he feared the suspected <b>asylum</b> seekers intercepted 150 kilometres off the coast of Dampier would suffer the same fate as those turned back this year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They must not be pushed back to Vietnam, like the 46 people in April this year," Mr Vo wrote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton's office did not reply by deadline to a request for comment.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shorten backs turn-backs</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Gordon   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b> seekers Labor faces battle over boats policy</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten faces a bruising battle at Labor's national conference over his determination to include turning back the boats in the party's <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Labor leader has said it is clear that a combination of regional resettlement, offshore processing and turning back boats is defeating people smugglers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I can no longer escape the conclusion that, if Labor forms government, it needs to have all the options on the table," Mr Shorten told ABC television.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The policy reversal, after years of opposing turn-backs as unsafe and counterproductive, will be vigorously opposed on the floor of the Labor Party's national conference in Melbourne over the weekend.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of the convenors of the Left faction, Andrew Giles, predicted after Mr Shorten's declaration that the reversal would be opposed by the Left, which has almost half the 497 votes on the conference floor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Predicting the issue would be the most hotly debated at the conference, Mr Giles said ahead of a meeting of the Left to decide its position: "My expectation is that we will not support turn-backs."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten refused to quantify how many lives were lost because Labor did not embrace turn-backs in government, instead blaming Prime Minister Tony Abbot for opposing Labor's solution of sending <b>boat</b> arrivals to Malaysia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He also promised a more compassionate approach that would include lifting Australia's <b>refugee</b> intake. It is likely he and immigration spokesman Richard Marles will argue turn-backs are permitted under the platform to go before the conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Mr Shorten expects to win a close vote on the issue at the conference, he is also likely to prevail on the issue of marriage equality after warning advocates of a binding vote for Labor MPs they could set back their cause if they were to get their way at the conference. Mr Shorten has predicted any move by Labor to bind its MPs to support same-sex marriage will make Mr Abbott more determined to bind Coalition MPs against change, making any reform impossible this year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten's warning on same-sex marriage comes as strong supporters of marriage equality and opponents of <b>boat</b> turn-backs meet on Thursday to consider tactics for the three-day party conference. Some backers of a binding vote are set to support a compromise that would bind Labor MPs on a policy supporting gay marriage, but only after the next election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is because there is no prospect of change before the next election unless Coalition MPs are given the free vote that Labor MPs were afforded during Julia Gillard's prime ministership. It is not yet clear whether the party's most senior advocate of a binding vote, deputy leader Tanya Plibersek, will support delaying imposition of such a vote until after the election. Mr Shorten says the best way to achieve the change is "to build support by finding common ground; through consensus not coercion — not through the force of procedure but through the power of an idea whose time has come".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With neither the Right nor the Left having a clear majority at the largest conference in Labor's history, factional negotiators are trying to avoid issues being decided by a count of delegates' votes. Marriage equality, <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> turn-backs, party reform and trade policy loom as the most divisive issues at the conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In an opinion piece written exclusively for <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span>, Mr Shorten has warned that a binding vote on same-sex marriage would place "a handful of Labor MPs" in a very difficult position.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Either they vote against their conscience - or they vote against the party they've dedicated their working life to serving," he writes. But a greater consequence would be that it would jeopardise any prospect of Mr Abbott supporting a free vote among Coalition MPs.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>RICHARD MARLES   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The issues around <b>asylum</b> seekers are among the most serious policy areas any politician or government has had to deal with in this country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite best intentions, a terrible loss of life took place on Labor’s watch. We did not get it right then but we are very clear now about making sure we don’t repeat those mistakes.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We won’t allow people smugglers to reopen the perilous journey from Java to Australia. Most on the journey are genuine refugees but this journey, of itself, is not a flight from persecution.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No one is fleeing persecution in Indonesia. This journey is all about people smuggling: criminal syndicates, making a great deal of money, taking advantage of vulnerable people with the result 1200 <b>asylum</b> seekers died on our border in less than three years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Were a future Labor government to allow that journey to start again in earnest, and put people smugglers back in business, the consequence would be a huge loss of life on our borders again. Given what we now know, we would be rightly condemned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We are resolved to send a clear and unequivocal message to people smugglers a Shorten Labor government will never afford them the chance to start plying their despicable trade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That means we need to be able to use every policy setting at our ­disposal to ensure that this passage is never reopened. We will stand firm on maintaining a policy of offshore processing. Taking Australia off the table has dealt a huge blow to people smugglers being able to sell the ­journey to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, unlike the Liberals, we don’t think the offshore facilities should be run as punitive holding cells. They need to be humane. They need to offer people seeking safety exactly that. And they need to provide speedy processing so claims for protection can be determined quickly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Offshore processing and regional resettlement, together with the Coalition’s policy of turn-backs, is what actually stopped the boats. Neither could have succeeded in isolation. ­Together they have ended a tragedy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor continues to have legitimate operational concerns about turn-backs. The government has steadfastly refused to provide answers that would allay the concerns of Australians. The community is entitled to know the facts. However, ignoring this policy would be irresponsible and would risk sending a dangerous ­message to people smugglers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I believe that, provided it can be done safely, a future Labor ­government must have the option to undertake turn-backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That is the position Labor held in the past, with then leader Kevin Rudd signalling his intent to engage in ­turn-backs before the 2007 election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Today people smugglers in Jakarta are largely out of business. We know that. Labor will not risk putting those people smugglers back into operation with the inevitable consequence that hundreds of men, women and children will face death in the Java Sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is not about pandering to the politics of fear, it is about having a sensible, safe set of policies that will stop people from dying.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is also about making sure that there is no ambiguity or uncertainty about Labor’s position when it comes to the question of our borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For all Prime Minister Tony ­Abbott’s crowing about his achievements, let’s not forget we saw the very worst of our parliament on display when the Greens teamed up with the Liberals to scuttle Labor’s circuit-breaker deal with Malaysia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For the Coalition, closing down that journey is the central piece of an architecture that is about putting a massive wall around Australia and turning our back on the world’s problems. By contrast, Labor is driven by compassion. Accordingly, a Labor government will be more engaged with the world than ever before at a time when the globe is experiencing its biggest humanitarian need since WWII. But our capacity to do that is dependent on the route ­between Java and Christmas Island being closed. If it started up again we would be consumed by it, as we were when we were last in government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ALP national conference will require a difficult but dignified debate and the making of a tough decision. But if we can get it right, Australia’s humanitarian standing and our security will be enhanced, not diminished.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Richard Marles is shadow minister on immigration.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Labor Right sees light on turnbacks</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>377 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last November Bill Shorten declared that in 2015 his party would be defined “by the power of our ideas”. He’s finally had a good one.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In fact it may be Shorten’s best idea since he took over as Labor leader in the wake of the 2013 election.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is Shorten’s idea: To copy exactly the Coalition’s policy on turn backs for <b>asylum</b> seeker vessels intercepted on the way to Australian waters. Granted, this is obviously not an original idea from Shorten and Labor. Far from it. But common sense and reason should not be shunned merely because an opposing party arrived at a decision first.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition, for example, gave broad support to most of Labor’s economic reform initiatives when prime minister Bob Hawke and treasurer Paul Keating led overwhelmingly successful Labor governments in the 1980s. The belated change of policy on <b>boat</b> turnbacks should be viewed in a similar light.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s decision comes a ­remarkable seven years after the party disastrously introduced weaker, allegedly more “humane” border protection policies after coming to office under Kevin Rudd in 2007. The changes instead led to tens of thousands of new arrivals after the Coalition’s previous policies had effectively stopped the boats and emptied Australia’s ­detention centres. More than 1200 men, women and children are ­believed to have drowned during the Labor years as they fell for the lures offered by heartless and mercenary people smugglers, who earned thousands for every person they crammed on to unsafe vessels.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor immigration spokesman Richard Marles recognises his party’s deadly error: “Despite best intentions, a terrible loss of life took place on Labor’s watch. We did not get it right then but we are very clear now about making sure we don’t repeat those mistakes. Offshore processing and regional ­resettlement together with the ­Coalition’s policy of turn backs is what actually stopped the boats.” Incredibly, many within Labor will not acknowledge the logic. Labor’s Left is still opposed to <b>boat</b> turn backs and other proven methods of ending people smuggling.Their opposition will be loud at this weekend’s Labor conference. Shorten, Marles and Labor’s rat-ional wing must hold firm.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Labor turns back on boats</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>385 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Gold Coast Bulletin</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GCBULL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GoldCoast</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CANBERRA: Labor will go to the next election promising to turn back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats in a dramatic policy switch which will test Opposition Leader Bill Shorten’s leadership.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten and Immigration spokesman Richard Marles will endorse a new policy in which Labor will vow to turn back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats intercepted on the way to Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The decision will set up a massive brawl with the party’s Left, which opposes turn-backs, and could be undermined almost immediately by a vote at the party’s national conference on Saturday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Marles made it clear Labor had abandoned the failed policies of the Gillard and Rudd years which saw 50,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers arrive in Australia by <b>boat</b>, and another 1200 die at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Despite best intentions, a terrible loss of life took place on Labor’s watch,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We did not get it right then but we are very clear now about making sure we don’t repeat those mistakes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Offshore processing and regional resettlement together with the Coalition’s policy of turn-backs is what actually stopped the boats. I believe, provided it can be done safely, a future Labor Government must have the option to undertake turn-backs.’’ Labor’s decision to match the Coalition policy of turn-backs is an acknowledgment of the success of the hardline Operation Sovereign Borders, which was implemented by the Abbott Government after it was elected in 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While former prime minister Kevin Rudd said in a media interview days before the 2007 election that he supported turn-backs, it has never been part of Labor Party’s policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s Left fiercely opposes <b>boat</b> turn-backs and Mr Marles’ intervention is likely to see heated debate at Saturday’s national conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Any vote to rule out turn-backs would be close, as the right and left factions each hold almost 200 votes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In an opinion piece, Mr Marles acknowledged Labor’s troubled history with <b>asylum</b>-seeker policies, and said it was one of the most serious policy areas any politician or government had to deal with.“Were a future Labor government to allow this journey to start again in earnest, and put people smugglers back in business, the consequence would be a huge loss of life.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Boat</b> policy may kill Bill BILL Shorten’s decision to match the Abbott Government’s turn-back-the-boats policy is designed to win votes across mainstream Australia, but in doing so will certainly split his own party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor, as revealed exclusively by heraldsun.com.au last night, is deeply divided on an issue over which it has not been able to come to terms. Now it is turning back the boats upon which Mr Shorten’s future as Labor leader depends.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The party is at loggerheads, ideologically and emotionally, on this issue, which means he may be pulling on an internal fight he may ultimately lose.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shadow immigration minister Richard Marles has worked hard to build support for change following what he admits was a terrible loss of life that took place on Labor’s watch, which if repeated would see the party condemned. They are his words. Some 1200 <b>asylum</b> seekers lost their lives at sea while trying to reach Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In trying to swing the party behind him on this most divisive of issues, Mr Shorten is acknowledging Mr Abbott was right, which has its own political risks, and that turning back the boats is the only practical and humane way to deal with this issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE stakes for Mr Shorten, whose personal stocks in the electorate have never been lower, could not be higher and he must know the risks. His political career, from union leader to faction boss and now alternative prime minister, as he likes to project himself, is in the balance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Which way the delegates will tip at the ALP conference is a question no one can answer; the numbers sit on a razor’s edge, 196 Left and 197 Right, with four unaligned and office-bearers unable to vote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The reality is that if the ALP conference rolls Mr Shorten on this policy, they are effectively rolling him as leader. Mr Shorten has also to contend with the ambitions and personal agendas of those around him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek, for one, cannot be relied upon to loyally follow her leader where no deputy has gone before. Ms Plibersek, in the eyes of many, is moving towards becoming Labor’s next leader.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If she were to vote against the policy to turn back the boats, by either towing them back, turning them around with enough fuel to return to Indonesia, asking the Indonesians to take them back or putting <b>asylum</b> seekers aboard lifeboats, it may well sink Mr Shorten, depending on how many might support her.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten would have been repudiated by his own party, no matter that the policy is being put forward by Mr Marles, who began working for change after the election wipeout following the knifings of prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, in which Mr Shorten played so central a role. Some in the ALP will never forgive him for that.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Plibersek, as a former Gillard supporter and acting leader when Mr Shorten was out of the country, is seen as one of them and repudiated Mr Shorten when she called for Labor MPs and senators to be forced to support gay marriage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She wanted them bound to Labor policy although Mr Shorten had clearly indicated he wanted a conscience vote on this most personal of questions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Whether Ms Plibersek was determined to lock in the party on an issue in which she passionately believed, or it was the first public indication of her own leadership manoeuvrings, may be seen this weekend.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The carbon tax is yet another matter on which Mr Shorten and Labor are struggling, with Mr Shorten determined to impose a tax he prefers to call an Emissions Trading Scheme.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten may seek to appease those who might vote against turning back the boats by supporting a radical climate change policy that will require half of Australia’s major energy production to come from renewable energy sources within 15 years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nevertheless, turning back the boats may be a turnaround too far for Labor’s Left although the prospect of a Labor government putting the people smugglers back in business would almost certainly ensure an election defeat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The overcrowded detention facilities on Christmas Island were a national embarrassment under Labor’s watch. Australians despaired as <b>asylum</b> seeker boats foundered and men, women and children were dashed against the rocks. Others sank before they reached Australian waters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Detention on Nauru and Manus Island has caused riots and an alleged murder, which is another reason why it is better to turn back the boats than encourage them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Whether Mr Shorten is about to be sucked into a vortex of his own making by trying to adopt Mr Abbott’s successful turn-back-the-boats policy is the question.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">KILLING Bill will be the effect of a “no’’ vote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A “yes’’ vote would show him to be the alternative leader he believes the electorate has been looking for, if not his own party, rived as it is by its internal differences.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor is known for what divides it as much as what draws it together and that will be shown by its vote this weekend, whether it is decided by politics or principle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Accepting that Abbott is right and Rudd and Gillard, and Rudd again, were wrong may be too big an ask from those who see themselves as the true believers, driven by passion rather than pragmatism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TOUCHED BY THE ROAD TOLL THIS YEAR 142 LAST YEAR 140Victorian deaths in 2015, compared with the same day last year</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>RIGHT COURSE BEST FOR LABOR</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Greg Sheridan, Foreign Editor   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Conference victories for the Left would be harmful for the party as well as Australia</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The prospect of noisy, conflict-ridden Labor Party conferences gladdens the heart of every journalist. In the 1980s, Labor Party conferences were the best political theatre in Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In NSW, Graham Richardson from the Right and John Faulkner from the Left would rip into each other with magnificent ferocity. In Victoria the readmission of four big right-wing unions that had left the party in the split of the 1950s caused violent protest.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I can remember an ALP national conference in Canberra when Bob Hawke enjoyed a 77 per cent approval rating. Left-wing anti-uranium demonstrators lay down in front of him and other party leaders to try to stop them getting into the Lakeside Hotel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One group of demonstrators emitted a mournful dirge: “We are gentle, angry wimmin and we’re singing for our lives” as the party leaders walked across them to get into the conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hawke remarked that the hostility of the demonstrators would help with the remaining 23 per cent of voters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At these conferences, the Right won, unlike the 50s to the 70s, when the Left often won. Conference conflict followed by a left-wing victory was a recipe for electoral disaster. Right-wing victory spelt electoral success.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now, more than at any time since just after the Whitlam government, the Left stands a chance of victory. The party rank and file voted for the Left candidate, Anthony Albanese, against the Right’s Bill Shorten. The Left’s Mark Butler won the party presidency.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Shorten’s leadership fails, the ALP is likely to fall to the Left. That needn’t necessarily be a disaster. Neville Wran came from the Left but he governed at the discretion of the Right. He was a moderate and sensible premier. He left the Right to run the party while he ran the government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But if the Left is triumphant generally in the Labor Party, the short-term result will be bad for Labor, and the long-term result very bad for Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In foreign affairs, this weekend’s conference will see real conflict on three issues. A surge of popular opinion has mobilised against the increased liberalisation of rules allowing the Chinese to bring in their own labour force for investments in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A lot of this is unsavoury populism with a distinct tinge of the old yellow peril. But there is an element with some merit. We have high unemployment and massive disguised unemployment. The fact that we cannot train or engage our own people, that we neither have the skills nor the desire for work, to supply the labour for many of these projects is an indictment of our regulatory, educational and industrial relations systems.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is part of our becoming a kind of Saudi Australia during the minerals boom. Australia’s regulatory burden and cost structure are completely uncompetitive. Part of the way our system responds is by getting foreigners to come in, with lighter regulatory burdens, greater efficiency and lower cost structures, to do the work we have priced ourselves out of and guaranteed we are untrained for.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is not just Labor Party protectionism. It speaks to the breakdown of effective politics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We are in a bizarre period of denial about what it takes to generate wealth. Labor’s talk of a 50 per cent renewable energy target is nearly insane. To say that this would lower energy costs can only work if there is a massive subsidy to renewable energy so that the government pays the cost, rather than the consumer. But what is the source of the government’s wealth from which to pay the cost? The disengagement of our national debate from the central task of generating national income is extremely perilous.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">China’s record internationally of often insisting on using its own labour force when it makes big investments is enough to cause some genuine concern.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s political path on the China FTA is clear enough. It will make all the noise it can over the imported labour issue, and the question of proper regulation and qualifications of that labour. But it won’t finally commit to scuppering the China FTA. If the Left succeeds in forcing a future Labor government to repudiate the China FTA altogether, it will do enormous damage to Labor’s credibility to govern.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The second big issue, bigger politically even than the China FTA, is the policy of pushing back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats. For at least the last four elections this issue has been a big vote loser for Labor. The conference will not give a Labor government an explicit mandate to push boats back. But it is likely to be sufficiently vague or ambiguous to allow Shorten and his immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, to take whatever policy they like to the next election. This won’t wipe out the electoral impact of Labor’s record but the other possible outcome, a left-wing victory that explicitly forbids <b>boat</b> turnbacks, would hurt Labor’s chances massively.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Finally, there is likely to be a compromise on Israel and an early recognition of Palestinian statehood. The compromise will involve some criticism of Israeli settlements and of Benjamin Netanyahu’s rhetoric but will not commit a Labor government to unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state that doesn’t exist. A left-wing victory that required such recognition would hurt Labor electorally.Labor’s prospects are best if the Left falls short of its ambitions in all three of these areas. But it’s more unpredictable than it has been for a long time.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>BILL'S <b>BOAT</b> TURNBACK</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DANIEL MEERS, National Political Reporter   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten finally admits ALP’s <b>asylum</b> seeker error</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BILL Shorten will stare down Labor’s powerful Left faction and ask the party to finally adopt the Abbott government’s controversial turnback policy if they win office.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a stunning backflip, Mr Shorten last night admitted Labor “had to face the truth” that the policy worked and conceded Labor made “mistakes” in government which ­allowed 50,000 illegal ­arrivals and more than 1100 people to die at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten lit the fuse for an explosive showdown with the party’s Left faction when the ALP national conference begins in Melbourne tomorrow.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Daily Telegraph can ­reveal powerful Labor Left figures will host a “Labor for Refugees” seminar at the conference which will include discussions about why <b>asylum</b> seekers should even be detained.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten and shadow immigration spokesman Richard Marles have spent several months working on colleagues to support the policy change. Shadow cabinet will begrudgingly support the plan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I can no longer escape the conclusion that Labor, if we form a government, needs to have all the options on the table,’’ Mr Shorten said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That would include <b>boat</b> turn backs as an option.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“If I want to be the leader of this nation, I’ve got to be able to face the truth. The truth for me is that if we have policies in place which gives sustenance and ­support to people smugglers to ­exploit vulnerable people, where they put these vulnerable people on unsafe boats and then people drown at sea, I can’t support any policies which do that.” The announcement sent ­<span class="companylink">Twitter</span> into overdrive, with many “loyal” ALP supporters vowing to desert the party for the Greens. Mr Shorten conceded the issue would be divisive with the Left: “It’s not an easy issue for Labor because on one hand we’re absolutely committed to the humane treatment of refugees and on the other hand we also want to ­prevent people drowning at sea.” Mr Shorten’s decision will put his leadership on the line.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor members could vote to abandon the policy. It is understood the Left and Right of the party each have about 200 votes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a sign of a potential bloodbath of the issue, a page in the ALP’s official national conference handbook is devoted to promoting the Labor <b>asylum</b> seeker event which will be open to the public.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><span class="companylink">ACTU</span> boss Ged Kearney, who is regarded as an influential figure on the party’s Left, will head the discussion with human rights lawyer Julian Burnside and <b>refugee</b> advocate David Manne.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The seminar claims to provide “intellectually honest answers”. Labor’s decision to match the Coalition policy of turnbacks is an acknowledgment of the success of the government’s hard line Operation Sovereign Borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor policy is likely to include humanitarian protections, an increase in <b>refugee</b> intake to 27,000 a year, improved management of offshore processing facilities and greater transparency.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">EDITORIAL PAGE 30</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ALP’S LITANY OF GETTING IT WRONG November 23, 2007 In an interview with The Australian: “You’d turn them back.” Kevin Rudd August 14, 2013 “In terms of turning back the boats, you can’t take the policy settings that were used in 2001, photocopy them and think that in the intervening years people smugglers haven’t learnt anything.” Tony Burke November 10, 2013 “There’s no doubt in my mind that the coalition’s <b>boat</b> person policy is absolutely not working.” Bill Shorten October 28, 2014 “I want to make it crystal clear, there has been no change to Labor’s policy on Tony Abbott’s secret turn backs.”Shorten 15 June 2015 “We certainly have been opposed to turn backs”Tanya Plibersek (inset)</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Noel Towell
Chief Public Service Reporter   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>494 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A006</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Boat</b> blame denied by striking public servants</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Noel Towell Chief Public Service Reporter</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Striking members of the Australian Border Force say they are not to blame for a <b>refugee boat</b> evading the federal government's much vaunted Operation Sovereign Borders this week. But border officers' union has conceded that a range of "in-port" disruptions to the force's fleet are underway and that in-port delays are being inflicted on its activities. The <b>boat</b>, understood to be carrying Vietnamese <b>asylum</b> seekers, appeared about 150 kilometres of the north west coast of WA on Monday morning with the government refusing to answer questions about the arrival. But the union, the CPSU, has rejected speculation that their members industrial action might have been to blame for the failure to detect the vessel until it came almost alongside an offshore oil rig. The union says it has a deal with the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, parent agency of Border</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Force, that the strike action currently underway will not stop officers acting if lives are in danger at sea. The government is refusing to provide details of the arrival but Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has also denied that striking public servants had anything to do with the <b>boat</b>'s progress. CPSU national secretary Nadine Flood says the strike action is primarily occurring on dry land "We emphatically reject any suggestion that the protected industrial action our members are taking has resulted in an <b>asylum</b> seeker vessel being located off the Dampier coast," Ms Flood said. "The protected industrial action underway includes a ban on a range of in-port activities such as loading and unloading stores, rubbish and equipment, pre-departure checks, routine and maintenance activities. "These actions are causing some in-port delays," she said. The union leader said a ban on boarding suspected illegal fishing vessels was being enforced but that it did not extend to <b>asylum</b> seeker boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There is also a ban on members undertaking boarding or enforcement activities at sea, which is primarily impacting on vessels targeting illegal foreign fishing activities," Ms Flood said. "Australian Border Force Marine Unit staff take their responsibilities very seriously and have given commit- ments to ensure that none of the actions taken would compromise the safety of lives at sea. "It is important to note that this protected industrial action, including 'safety of lives at sea' and national security safeguards, has been fully negotiated and properly notified with the Department of Immigration and Border Protection and approved by the <span class="companylink">Fair Work Commission</span>." Border Force officials have joined many of their counterparts across the public service in rejecting wage offers made under the Abbott government's tough bargaining policy. Ill-feeling is running particularly high among former Customs officers who are facing big pay cuts, of up to $8000 in some cases, to transfer to the Australian Border Force.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Leader backs <b>boat</b> returns, queries FTA</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Phillip Coorey Chief political correspondent   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Opposition leader Bill Shorten has decided to take on the Left of his party and support turning back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats if Labor wins the next federal election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten will make his argument for the policy change at the Labor National Conference this weekend as part of his announcing Labor's immigration policy.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As previously reported by The <span class="companylink">Australian Financial</span> Review, a deal is being negotiated between factions with the aim of leaving the policy platform blank on the issue of turnbacks - neither supporting it nor opposing it. This would give any future Labor government the discretion to apply the policy should it feel the need.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten will argue on Saturday for that option. He confirmed on Wednesday that he would propose a renewable energy target of 50 per cent by 2030 at the conference and side with union concerns about the China Australia free-trade agreement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Government claims that Labor's misgivings over the trade deal were driven by xenophobia were dismissed as absurd and offensive by shadow trade minister Penny Wong.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senator Wong, who experienced racism as a child, said concerns from Labor and unions about provisions relating to the importation of Chinese workers were legitimate. Trade Minister Andrew Robb had a responsibility to respond. "This is an absurd allegation from Mr Robb. Rather than engaging in spurious and offensive attempts to distract the public, Mr Robb should answer the questions Australians have about this agreement."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senator Wong revealed to the Financial Review last week that Labor would seek to tighten provisions of the trade agreement when it comes before Parliament this year to be enshrined in legislation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The trade union movement is campaigning hard against the same provisions and will move a motion at this weekend's Labor national conference, the party's top policymaking forum, seeking to bind Labor to reject elements of the agreement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Chinese have warned they have the right to renegotiate elements of the agreement if any changes are made. Mr Robb said the criticism was a "vile, xenophobic scare based on falsehoods" and vowed to not change a word.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten said on Wednesday Labor was not opposed to the trade deal and it contained "definite and important benefits. "But no way can Labor simply just expect to rubber stamp a deal which sells out Australian jobs," he said. "Mr Abbott thinks that life is about win-lose - he wins and other people lose. We're going to propose sensible amendments in the Parliament to make sure that Australians get priority and jobs in Australia and we don't see rorts of the 457 and other visas."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He supported free trade and guest workers "but we want to make sure that where you've got unemployment, where you've got Australians willing to work, this trade agreement doesn't open the floodgates and let these people in, in favour of other arrangements negotiated by this government. A free-trade agreement should never be increasing the cost of living by causing greater unemployment."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Documentary goes back for more</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nick Galvin   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A third series of Go Back to Where You Came From is as timely now as it was at its controversial beginning, writes Nick Galvin.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's four years since the first series of Go Back to Where You Came From, and even producer Rick McPhee was unsure whether a third series was justified.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"After series two we were thinking that was probably it," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"But then, when the government changed and there were new policies, SBS came back to us and said, 'Should we go again?' "</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And, in what is perhaps a reflection of how divisive the issue of <b>asylum</b> seekers continues to be, the filmmakers swiftly concluded another series was justified.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's still a hot-button topic now as much as it was four years ago," McPhee says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Conceptually, the latest Go Back is broadly similar to the first two outings, following in reverse the journeys of individual <b>asylum</b> seekers. But this time there is a fresh emphasis on the Abbott government's much-touted "turnback" or "towback" policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">McPhee and his team know only too well that the success or otherwise of this style of "constructed documentary" depends on the quality of the participants. An enormous amount of time and money goes into finding just the right mix of human ingredients to make the social experiment fizz and sparkle on screen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Potential participants are rigorously screened and even interviewed by a psychologist.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I want people who are happy to express how they are feeling and express their thoughts and opinions," McPhee says. "There's no point taking someone who just won't speak."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Viewers also have a natural desire to see some development in the views of the participants, for them to take an emotional voyage that parallels their physical journey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, shifting from a long-held political position can often come at significant personal cost.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The psychologist told me that to change your mind is actually a really big deal if that opinion forms part of who you are," McPhee says. "You can put a lot of pressure on your social situation. If you have a different opinion from your family and friends you can be ostracised."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of the participants, Andrew Jackson, a Melbourne teacher, moderates his hardline views significantly over the three episodes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jackson's mental turmoil and emotionally charged response to seeing conditions in a Jordanian <b>refugee</b> camp and visiting Syria, where they come under fire from ISIS insurgents, is in stark contrast to that of Kim Vuga, a self-described freelance journalist from Townsville.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Vuga administers a <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> page called "Stop the <b>boat</b> people" (motto: "This is Australia: We eat meat, we drink beer and we speak f--kin' English."). Months after the end of filming she posted videos of herself and a small group of friends picketing outside the Townsville offices of federal Member for Herbert Ewen Jones brandishing placards declaring "Refugees suck Aust dry" and "Multicuture (sic) is a failure".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">McPhee says he was under no illusions that Vuga would move far - if at all - from her uncompromising views.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Vuga saw the program as a "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity and a chance to travel outside Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I had to get a passport," she says. "I hadn't been out of Australia. I'd been to New Zealand when I think I was 12. Technically, I really hadn't been anywhere."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Vuga confirms that the experience has done nothing to change her mind that <b>asylum</b> seekers are a "threat to our security".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Vuga and Jackson were joined by Nicole Judge on their trip to Jordan and Syria. Judge is a high-profile whistleblower who worked on Manus Island and gave evidence to the parliamentary inquiry into the death of Reza Berati.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Vuga calls Judge a "traitor" in the first of the programs, and was unwilling last week to revise her opinion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I still see Nicole as a traitor to our country," she says. "Nicole knows this."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meanwhile, relations between Vuga and Jackson were, if anything, even more poisonous.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"She is a revolting person," Jackson says. "She is not a nice person." (Vuga describes Jackson as "annoying" and "quite rude".)</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The pair clash frequently on screen as Jackson begins to question his own views and how much he "deceived" himself in the past.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He now says when he in the past applied labels such as "country shoppers" to <b>asylum</b> seekers he was merely avoiding harsh truths.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I could then put that problem in a little box and close it and not think about it because if you do think about it it's really painful," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I've spent the nine months since the show trying to work out why I have been such a bastard in my life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We're born in to the lucky country and you have two choices. One is to try to help people - and in some ways you realise that's impossible - and the other is to go, 'I'm feeling guilty about this. How do I not feel guilty about this? I'll somehow make it their fault'."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of the highlights of the series is watching Jackson struggle with his conscience and question some deeply held beliefs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Once it started happening in the show, I accepted it," he says. "I could have fought it but that's not then being true to myself or I could go, 'This is happening, it's on TV. Great. You're going to get to watch me change my mind'."</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WHAT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Go Back to Where You Came From</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WHEN</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tuesday to Thursday, SBS, 8.30pm</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gmovie : Movies | nrvw : Reviews | nmovrw : Movie Reviews | gcat : Political/General News | gent : Arts/Entertainment | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfce : C&E Exclusion Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AGEE000020150722eb7n0005q</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-ILM0000020150722eb7m0001j" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PM silent on <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> breach</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NICOLE HASHAM   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>488 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Illawarra Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ILM</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PRIME Minister Tony Abbott is refusing to say how a suspected <b>boat</b> of Vietnamese <b>asylum</b> seekers penetrated Australia's newly strengthened border regime, as <b>refugee</b> advocates urge the government not to turn the arrivals away.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Authorities were believed to be escorting the <b>boat</b> out of Australian waters on Tuesday. <b>Refugee</b> advocates believe it contained up to 30 Vietnamese Catholics escaping persecution, including women and children.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The highly touted Australian Border Force came into effect this month. It combined the frontline operations of the customs and immigration departments, and reinforced the government's efforts to "stop the boats".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott has previously said the border force would "ensure the legitimate passage of people and goods through our borders while preventing all illegal passage".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At a press conference on Tuesday, Mr Abbott would not say if the government was negotiating with Vietnam over the <b>boat</b>'s return, nor if it had questioned the border force on how the <b>boat</b> came so close to shore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Can I repeat what has been the standard rule of this government - we do not comment on operational matters on the water," Mr Abbott said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We do not discuss things in ways which would give comfort to the people smugglers."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pressed on how the ABF allowed the <b>boat</b> to slip through its defences, Mr Abbott said compared with border protection by the previous Labor government, the Coalition had been "magnificently successful, we have saved the lives of hundreds of people who might otherwise have been expected to drown at sea."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government has adopted a hardline policy of turning or taking back <b>asylum</b> seeker vessels.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A "take back" of 46 Vietnamese <b>asylum</b> seekers occurred in April. The men, women and children were held at sea for almost a month before being returned to Vietnam by the Australian navy after a a diplomatic exchange between the two countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At a Senate estimates inquiry in May, border officials said the government was assured "there would not be any retribution for their illegal departure from Vietnam", however they conceded the department does not track <b>asylum</b> seekers once they have returned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In evidence to the inquiry, officials would not say if the group were asked if they had suffered torture or trauma before being sent back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to <span class="companylink">Human Rights Watch</span>, Vietnam's human rights record is "dire in all key areas" and the communist state "suppresses virtually all forms of political dissent, using a broad array of repressive measures" including torture.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott on Tuesday reiterated the government's "absolute determination to ensure that people will not come to this country illegally by <b>boat</b>".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"If any, by hook or by crook, actually get here, they will never get permanent residency in this country," he said. The government sends <b>asylum</b> seekers to Manus Island and Nauru for processing, with potential resettlement in those jurisdictions or Cambodia.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Navy holding <b>asylum</b>-seekers</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PAIGE TAYLOR   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>523 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">About 80 Vietnamese <b>asylum</b>- seekers allegedly displaced from disputed fishing zones in the South China Sea were in the ­custody of the Australian navy yesterday, as speculation grew that Canberra was on the verge of ­another diplomatic deal to return them to the communist state.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Refugee</b> advocates yesterday received what they said were first details about those on board, ­including a partial passenger list for the small blue wooden <b>boat</b> that had been tracked by the Australian government since at least Sunday off the Pilbara coast of Western Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of the passengers is a 16-year-old boy from an extended fishing family who say they were forced out of the Spratly ­Islands by Chinese authorities, ­said Trung Doan of the Vietnamese-Australian human rights organisation VOICE.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I have spoken with the mother of the 16-year-old boy on board and she is very concerned for him,” Mr Doan said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He’s with a group of about 30 relatives who used to fish in an area disputed by China — their <b>boat</b> was destroyed by Chinese authorities while they were fishing and they were rescued from the waters by another Vietnamese fisherman.” <b>Asylum</b> Seeker Resource ­Centre campaign co-ordinator Pamela Curr said there were at least 11 minors on the <b>boat</b>. Two of them were born in 2014, she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian has been told advocates are working with lawyers in an attempt to halt what Operation Sovereign Borders commander Andrew Bottrell calls a “take-back”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In April, the navy carried out a “take-back” involving 46 Vietnamese aboard HMAS Choules. In that incident, described in ­Senate estimates in May, the ­<b>asylum</b>-seekers were intercepted off Australia’s north on March 20, held at sea where they were ­interviewed using a fast-track ­process called “enhanced screening” then delivered to the port of Vung Tau.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday West Australian Premier Colin Barnett confirmed a police <b>boat</b> sent to watch over the <b>asylum</b>-seekers in their wooden fishing vessel on Monday had returned to Dampier.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The commonwealth naval vessels will take over … I think that’s happening now,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tony Abbott said yesterday his government’s efforts to prevent boats reaching Australia had been successful in saving the lives of hundreds who might otherwise have drowned at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“As long as anyone thinks that by coming here by <b>boat</b>, they will get the great prize of permanent residency here in Australia, the evil, dangerous, deadly trade of people smuggling will continue,” the Prime Minister said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The latest group was seen at first light by workers on the oil production vessel MODEC Venture 11, 80 nautical miles from Dampier. Two years earlier, a group of Vietnamese approached the same vessel and were taken to Christmas Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While <b>asylum</b>-seekers have traditionally been brought to ­Australian soil for interviews to establish whether their claims trigger Australia’s obligations, the enhanced screening pioneered by the Gillard government is a much faster process.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last year immigration officials used the method to assess 153 Tamils intercepted near the Cocos Islands.It took no more than about 90 minutes for each person.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | china : China | auscap : Australian Capital Territory | waustr : Western Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | bric : BRICS Countries | chinaz : Greater China | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | easiaz : Eastern Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020150721eb7m0008d</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-DAITEL0020150721eb7m0004j" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SwitchedOn</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Sisters go back to where opinions came from</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ANNA BRAIN TV WRITER   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>384 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They had the same upbringing, but Adelaide sisters Jodi, 33, and Renee, 29, somehow formed opposite views on the subject of <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jodi (pictured right, with Renee) is a strong supporter of the Federal Government’s border protection policies, who feels refugees are “invading Australia”. “I did not want refugees bombarding our country,” she says.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Renee, on the other hand, works for an organisation that assists refugees, in particular minors who have arrived by <b>boat</b>. She knew that taking part in SBS’s Go Back To Where You Came From with her sister would test their relationship.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“She often made comments and held opinions, which I considered racist,” Renee says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">During the experiment, the sisters live with former “<b>boat</b> people” in Australia, experience life on a <b>boat</b> that is turned back at sea, and retrace their hosts journey through the Thai jungle where human trafficking is rife.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jodi says that as a “stubborn person”, she didn’t expect to change her long-held views. “The news and word on the street led me to believe my opinions were valid, and (like) the majority of Australians,” she says. “(But) you cannot be immersed in such horrific situations, see what we saw and meet the people we did, without feeling empathy and compassion.” Renee held high hopes that her sister’s views would change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Jodi and I had our moments during the trip, but that was as expected,” Renee says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Jodi was being pushed to her limits, with her views being challenged constantly. I don’t blame her for stopping talking to me for part of the trip.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I know she feels that I take things too seriously.” Meeting refugees in Myanmar and Bangladesh, the sisters were forced to leave quickly when they were told authorities were coming to take their footage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It was quite scary seeing soldiers with guns, and barbed wire fences keeping the Rohingya people in,” Renee says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, Jodi now says she wishes she could have spent more time with the people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I did leave a piece of my heart with the Rohingya people,” she says. “It makes my life seem so perfect and unfair to them.”GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM, SBS, WEDNESDAY, 8.30PM</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>ghum : Human Rights/Civil Liberties | gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gcom : Society/Community | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document DAITEL0020150721eb7m0004j</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AFNR000020150721eb7m00012" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Labor expected not to formally oppose turning back the boats</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Ewin Hannan and Phillip Coorey   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>495 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senior ALP and union figures are expected to reject a push by <b>refugee</b> advocates to have the ALP policy platform amended to formally oppose the towing back of boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ALP sources said they expected the platform, to be debated at this weekend's national conference, would remain silent on <b>boat</b> tow-backs, effectively giving discretion to the parliamentary party about how to approach the issue if Labor won office.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One Left figure said while the push by the faction to explicitly rule out tow backs was likely to fail, "there will still be a big debate about it".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The draft platform says Labor supports Australia working with regional neighbours to reduce the number of <b>asylum</b> seekers travelling on overcrowded and un-seaworthy boats, and commits to improving the living conditions of <b>asylum</b> seekers detained in "transit countries" while increasing the humanitarian intake of genuine refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it is silent on tow-backs. "The best thing we can do is expand the humanitarian intake but close down the <b>boat</b> trade," one ALP figure said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government is hoping for a split on the issue at the conference, which would compromise Labor leader Bill Shorten going into the next election at which the Coalition will make border protection a signature issue. By leaving the platform blank on the policy, this avenue of attack would be diminished.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The party is also likely to accede to Mr Shorten's wishes that it democratise its internal processes - including giving rank-and-file members an increased and direct say in choosing Senate candidates and delegates who attend the National Conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But a proposal by the NSW Left in which rank-and-file members would have a 50 per cent say in choosing Senate candidates, is unlikely to succeed because of a difference of views inside the faction in different states.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Factional leaders are negotiating before a meeting of the Left on Thursday at which a formal position will be adopted. "We won't be hanging him out to dry," said one factional convenor of Mr Shorten, who called on the party last year to democratise its processes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Left is feeling empowered this year because for the first time in three decades, the Right no longer controls the numbers on the floor. Of 397 dele-gates slated to attend the conference, 196 are from the Left, 197 belong to the Right and four are unaligned. To effect a change in the rules, a statutory majority of 199 votes is needed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The focus of Labor's industrial wing at the conference will be to pass a resolution committing the ALP to seek changes to the government's free-trade agreement with China prior to Federal Parliament voting on the deal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shadow trade minister Penny Wong has committed Labor to ensuring there are safeguards for Australian jobs when legislation to enshrine the deal comes before the Parliament.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>BOAT</b> FOUND OFF WA COAST</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>145 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A SUSPECTED <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> spotted 140km off Western Australia’s north coast was being investigated by state police last night.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A spokesman for oil and gas sector contractor MODEC said workers on a tanker spotted the wooden vessel off Dampier, 1500km north of Perth.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It had entered the 500-metre exclusion zone around an oil rig. The Department of Immigration and Border Protection referred inquiries to Minister Peter Dutton, who refused to comment on “operational matters”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is understood the <b>boat</b>, carrying Vietnamese <b>asylum</b> seekers, had not reached land.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WA premier Colin Barnett said it was “concerning when <b>asylum</b> seeker boats got close to shore”, but the matter was under control.Few boats have come so close to the mainland since the Abbott Government introduced tough border protection policies two years ago, pledging to turn back the boats.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document HERSUN0020150721eb7l00001</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-COUMAI0020150720eb7l0005t" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Oil tanker crew spots possible refugees</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>RENEE VIELLARIS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>319 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A VIETNAMESE <b>boat</b> carrying suspected <b>asylum</b> seekers appears to be testing the Abbott Government’s multimillion-dollar defence line.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But mystery surrounds the vessel, with Immigration Minister Peter Dutton refusing to give any details or “comment on operational matters’’.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The secrecy has sparked demands the Government provide even just the most basic of information, with the Greens asking, “is there a <b>boat</b> or not?’’ Reports emerged yesterday that a small <b>boat</b> had been spotted by an oil tanker crew off the West Australian coast.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A number of people, believed to be from Vietnam, were on board the <b>boat</b>. The tanker operator contacted the <span class="companylink">Australian Maritime Safety Authority</span>, which has launched a search plane.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The extreme secrecy isn’t a national security strategy, it’s media strategy,’’ Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The Government picks and chooses what information they release in their own interests, not the interests of the public.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This is more about the Abbott Government’s PR protection than border protection.” Minister Dutton has refused to confirm the <b>boat</b> exists.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The secrecy and arrogance displayed by this Government are so extreme that it’s nearly farcical. Either there is a <b>boat</b> or there is not,” Senator Hanson-Young said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“If a <b>boat</b> has been found the Government should tell us who is on board, if there are women and children, and what they intend to do with these people.’’ In September, then Immigration Minister Scott Morrison declared Australia had won the battle against people smugglers, releasing operational details.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“(A year after Operation ­Sovereign Borders was launched), there has been just one venture in the past nine months to make it to Australia,’’ he said.“A total of 45 ventures have been stopped before they even set sail and a dozen more ventures have been turned back at sea, as we promised we would do,’’ Mr Morrison said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Vietnamese <b>boat</b></span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Tayissa Barone Andrew Tillett, Peter De Kruijiff, Daniel Mercer   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>367 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Second</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015, West Australian Newspapers Limited   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The fate of a group of suspected Vietnamese <b>asylum</b> seekers spotted about 150km off Dampier yesterday remained unknown as border protection officials raced to intercept their small fishing <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The blue wooden <b>boat</b> is believed to have made it closer to Australia than any other <b>asylum</b> seeker vessel since the last successful arrival in June last year.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Crew on the oil production platform Modec Venture 11 spotted the <b>boat</b> at first light yesterday within their 500m exclusion zone.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Modec Australia country operations manager Gary Kennedy said the group aboard the fishing <b>boat</b> had not made direct contact with his crew but appeared to be in good health and good spirits.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said the <b>boat</b> did not appear to be in distress and had its own propulsion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WA Police <b>boat</b> Delphinus was on its way to intercept the <b>boat</b> yesterday afternoon and a Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion was circling above it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Premier Colin Barnett said police were looking after the situation until a Commonwealth naval vessel arrived.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What will happen to the group once handed to border force officials is not clear but may include trying to return them to Vietnam or processing their <b>asylum</b> seeker claims at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The policy of towing boats out of Australian waters is the cornerstone of the Abbott Government’s hardline Operation Sovereign Borders, introduced when it won power.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A spokesman for Immigration and Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton said the Government did not comment on operational matters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor and the Greens demanded the Government reveal details immediately about the latest reported arrival.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The Government has a woeful record when it comes to being upfront on its border protection policies,” shadow immigration minister Richard Marles said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Greens immigration spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young said Mr Dutton needed to say if there were women and children on the <b>boat</b> and what the Government intended to do with the passengers. She said it was almost farcical that the Government would not say if there was a <b>boat</b> there or not.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In April, The West Australian revealed a navy warship ferried 50 <b>asylum</b> seekers back to Vietnam after they were intercepted.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | vietn : Vietnam | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | indochz : Indo-China | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>West Australian Newspapers Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document TWAU000020150720eb7l0004j</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020150720eb7l00032" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Asylum</b> turnback from oilfields</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PAIGE TAYLOR, SONIA KOHLBACHER   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>584 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum boat</b> turnback in offshore oilfields</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Abbott government was last night poised to turn back a suspected <b>asylum boat</b> that reached an oil-production vessel off the Pilbara coast in the early hours of yesterday, sending a police <b>boat</b> to head it off outside territorial waters.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government has been aware since at least Sunday that the suspected <b>asylum</b> vessel was making its way towards the northwest coast and asked police in the iron-ore town of Karratha to intercept it using their 30m <b>boat</b> Delphinus. Police were on their way when news broke that the <b>asylum boat</b> had been seen at first light by workers on the vessel MV11 about 80 nautical miles off the port of Dampier.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As a navy vessel headed ­towards the suspected <b>asylum</b>-seekers yesterday, <b>refugee</b> advocates were trying to make contact with those on board the small wooden <b>boat</b> to arrange a court injunction against any turnback.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Human rights lawyer George Newhouse, with <span class="companylink">Shine Lawyers</span>, said: “Depending on who they are, and where the government is taking them, their removal may be open to challenge. We have a team of lawyers that are currently looking into that.” It has been more than 18 months since an <b>asylum boat</b> made landfall on Christmas ­Island, the Australian territory where people-smugglers delivered almost all of their passengers in a sustained wave of arrivals that began in late 2008.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition has used the Maritime Powers Act to conduct turnbacks. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton yesterday refused to comment on the operation under way off the Pilbara coast.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In April, HMAS Choules ­delivered 46 intercepted Vietnamese <b>asylum</b>-seekers back to the port city of Vung Tau.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>boat</b> that approached the oil-production vessel MODEC Venture 11 yesterday did not ­appear stricken and passengers appeared well, according to Gary Kennedy, Australian operations manager for contractor MODEC. Mr Kennedy told The Australian workers could see the passengers clearly and believed they were Asian.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There was quite a large number of people on board, we’re not sure how many,” Mr Kennedy said. “The people seem to be in good health and high spirits and there was a lot of waving going on, but there was no direct communications between the crew and the actual <b>boat</b> itself.” MV11 workers already had a protocol for what to do when an <b>asylum boat</b> arrived after a similar event two years ago. The group that approached in July 2013, two months before Labor lost office, was Vietnamese. They were sent to Christmas Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the time West Australian Premier Colin Barnett expressed concern about whether the incident highlighted security failures. The waters off Dampier, 1500km north of Perth, is home to several oil and gas facilities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In April 2013, 66 Sri Lankan <b>asylum</b>-seekers sailed into the midwest city of Geraldton, 418km north of Perth. They were spotted by brothers Mark and Gary Rossiter who were in a tinnie. That group told authorities they were trying to get to New Zealand. In 2008 a group of Sri Lankan <b>asylum</b>-seekers navig­ated from Colombo to WA and swam ashore at Shark Bay, 800km north of Perth.<b>Refugee</b> Action Coalition spokesman Ian Rintoul said the new group should be brought to the mainland to have claims of <b>asylum</b> assessed. Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young said the vessel was not a matter of nat­ional security and demanded the government reveal details, including whether women and children were onboard.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>shjaxj : Shine Corporate Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>IN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>i835 : Legal Services | ibcs : Business/Consumer Services</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | srilan : Sri Lanka | waustr : Western Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | indsubz : Indian Subcontinent | sasiaz : Southern Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020150720eb7l00032</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020150720eb7l0001m" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Dutton silent on <b>boat</b> report</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Nicole Hasham   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>227 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A004</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dutton silent on <b>boat</b> report</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Nicole Hasham</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton is under pressure to be up front about reports an <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> has been sighted off the coast of Western Australia. The ABC said floating mining supply company Modec confirmed staff sighted what appeared to be an <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> off Dampier, and those on board appeared to be in good health. There is speculation the <b>boat</b> contains Vietnamese <b>asylum</b> seekers. A spokeswoman for Mr Dutton said "we do not comment on operational matters". The Abbott government claims its tough stance on <b>asylum</b></p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">seekers has enabled it to fulfil a pledge to "stop the boats". Greens senator Sarah Hanson- Young said Mr Dutton must "stop keeping the Australian public in the dark and tell us exactly what is going on". "This isn't a matter of national security; this is about ensuring that vulnerable people are not mistreated under a veil of secrecy," she said. "If a <b>boat</b> has been found, the government should tell us who is on board, if there are women and children, and what they intended to do with these people." A spokesman for the Dampier Seafarers Centre said he believed an <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> was sighted by crew on the Modec Venture MV11 structure, about 90 kilometres off the coast.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Detainees denied sanitary pads as 'security' measure</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nicole Hasham   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>482 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nauru - Senate inquiry</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Female <b>asylum</b> seekers on Nauru were denied easy access to sanitary pads for "security reasons", an elderly female was given pink "hot pants" to wear as shorts, and detainees were referred to by number not name, according to evidence by former detention centre workers at a Senate inquiry on Monday.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The inquiry also heard that no staff member accused of abusing a child <b>asylum</b> seeker at Nauru has been charged with an offence, and conditions were so hot inside tents that young children fainted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former <span class="companylink">Save the Children</span> worker Natasha Blucher was among a group of charity workers removed from Nauru amid now debunked claims they encouraged detainees to harm themselves. She was joined at the inquiry by a colleague, Samantha Betts, who was not involved in those allegations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Betts said sanitary products were provided to menstruating women on an "as needed" basis, and women were made to routinely ask male guards for the items each time they went to the toilet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After questioning the practice, Ms Betts said she was told by guards it was necessary for "security reasons", because sanitary pads had been allegedly soaked in petrol during 2013 riots at the centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young told the inquiry that there had been no female detainees at the centre during those riots.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Betts said temperatures inside school tents reached 50 degrees, causing children as young as five to faint, but workers were told to downgrade reporting of such incidents from "critical" to "minor".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration officials later said the department would inquire into those allegations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The former detention centre workers told the inquiry that detainees, including children and pregnant women, were often provided with ill-fitting clothes, sometimes held up with hair ties.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Blucher said a case worker "once came into a tent holding a pair of pink hotpants that had been provided to an elderly Burmese client of hers".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She said detainees were routinely referred to by their <b>boat</b> identification numbers rather than their names.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On questioning this, she was allegedly told by security staff "we can't remember the names - all our paperwork only contains numbers".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><span class="companylink">Transfield Services</span>, which runs the detention centre at Nauru, says there have been 67 child abuse allegations at the facility - 30 against staff.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The company's commercial and strategy manager, Erin O'Sullivan, said she was "unaware of any charges being laid" over the alleged staff incidents.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><span class="companylink">Transfield Services</span> could not guarantee that the staff had been permanently dismissed from the detention centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It said the definition of child abuse was broad.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This included children fighting and inappropriate discipline within families as well as alleged abuse by staff.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor senator Kim Carr asked how the firm reconciled the serious allegations of abuse at Nauru with its commitment to upholding human rights.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Bill Shorten is facing his make-or-break moment</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NICHOLAS REECE - Nicholas Reece is a principal fellow at Melbourne University and a former Victorian secretary of the ALP and policy adviser to Julia Gillard, Steve Bracks and John Brumby  </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor's conference is both minefield and opportunity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This week's ALP national conference could hardly come at a more critical juncture for the fortunes of the modern Labor Party and the leadership of Bill Shorten. Ahead in the polls but under pressure, Labor must not retreat into itself. And Shorten, a successful former union leader and champion of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, must show he can be the same sort of leader for Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If the conference goes badly, the jungle drums for an early election will beat even louder. If it goes well, it could be the foundation of a Labor victory in 2016.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As an exercise in political management, Labor's national conference is the equivalent of downhill skiing while blindfolded, and with treacherous ravines on either side.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No wonder the Liberal Party avoids this risk by giving its members only token input to their policy process. As for the Greens, they ban the media from attending debates at their party conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Delegates to Labor's conference should be issued with a picture of former British Labour leader Ed Miliband on a fridge magnet. This could be a daily reminder of how early success in the polls can create complacency that ultimately leads to electoral defeat. To be sure, delegates should also get one of Lynton Crosby. The architect of the Tories' recent victory will be back in Australia for the next election to unleash the same potent campaign against Australian Labor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For the first time since the 1980s, neither the Left nor the Right will control the numbers on the floor of the ALP conference. Of the 397 delegate votes, the Left commands 196, the Right 197 and four are unaligned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This creates a highly fluid situation in which the independents or a constellation of small groups and micro factions can change the outcome on any one vote. It means that even on the eve of the conference it is still anyone's guess as to where some of the big debates are going to land.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And, of course, there is no shortage of fraught issues set to inflame passions. Labor's perennial debate about its relationship with the union movement and "democratisation" looks like it will again fail to achieve much in the way of major structural reform. A split in the Left and limited support in the Right means a proposal by reform groups Open Labor and Local Labor for party members to be given a 50 per cent direct vote for MPs and conference delegates is likely to fall short.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, Shorten's push to drop the "socialist objective" from the party platform is likely to be successful. While mostly symbolic, that will be a nonetheless positive step for a party grounded in the social values of fairness and opportunity but needing to refresh its image as modern and progressive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Conference debate about <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy and <b>boat</b> turn-backs is set to be fiery. The platform is currently silent on turn-backs, with some arguing existing clauses about observing Australia's international human-rights obligations mean the party effectively opposes the practice. But this will not stop Labor for Refugees advocates putting a motion to firm up the party position, which in turn may attract a counter motion from supporters of turn-backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At this point, delegates would do well to remember the Miliband fridge magnet. Labor will be politically disembowelled by Tony Abbott and the Liberal attack machine if it goes to the next election opposing <b>boat</b> turn-backs. That would also set back by years efforts to achieve a more humanitarian policy in this field through reforms to improve conditions and monitoring in camps, lifting the <b>refugee</b> intake and a genuine regional solution, all of which Labor supports.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the environment front, Labor is set to recommit to an emissions trading scheme to tackle climate change. But a bold motion from Labor's Environment Action Network for a 50 per cent cut in emissions and 50 per cent renewable energy target by 2030 appears likely to fall short, despite a massive grass-roots campaign that has resulted in more than 340 local ALP branches supporting it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Only Labor could script such a result. The ETS is sensible policy but will be slammed by the Liberals and conservative press for bringing back the "carbon tax". In the current political environment the ETS commitment is brave policy-making, but ALP leaders will be slammed by environment groups and party members for not going far enough.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The marriage-equality debate will again be a highly energised one, with reform campaigners planning a major rally at the Melbourne Convention Centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten and his deputy, Tanya Plibersek, are divided on the push for a binding vote for MPs, and the Left and Right factions are also internally split. While the situation is fluid, most insiders expect the push for a binding vote to fall short.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten's speech will be the biggest set piece of the conference and the most important he has given since his reply to the 2014 Budget. Some of his best and most courageous speeches have been made at party conferences when under pressure on a big debate. Delegates need to see this fire still burns strong, while Australia needs to see a leader with the constructive, creative and brave modernisation agenda that the country needs..</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A resolution compelling Labor MPs to support same-sex marriage in a binding vote would split the party, NSW Labor leader Luke Foley has warned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Foley, who changed his own views on same-sex marriage before the NSW state election in March, also yesterday urged his Labor colleagues to be careful not to send a message of intolerance to people of faith as the party prepares­ to grapple with the issue of same-sex unions.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A leading light of the NSW Left, Mr Foley also wants delegates to Labor’s supreme policymaking body — the ALP national conference — to vote to finally ditch the party’s so-called socialist objective, saying the 1921 statement “just isn’t fit for purpose’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The lead-up to the ALP nat­ional conference, which begins on Friday in Melbourne, is being dominated by the issue of same-sex marriage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Foley supports a conscience vote, not a push by federal deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek to bind MPs on marriage equality. She argued in April the issue went to the heart of ending discrimination, and conscience votes should be limited to issues such as abortion and euthanasia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I don’t believe you achieve ­reform on a matter like this by compelling people to change their vote. You have to persuade,’’ Mr Foley, the NSW Opposition Leader, told Sky News’s Australian Agenda yesterday. “I think it’s important that the Labor Party is seen to be open to the very different and opposing views in society.’’ He said he would “worry about the consequences for party unity’’ if Labor MPs with very strong views on the issue were bound to a vote. Asked if it could split the party, Mr Foley said: “Yes, it would, and beyond that I think about the consequences in the community. I’m the leader of the Labor Party in NSW. I am in the suburbs of Sydney engaging with Sydney’s multicultural and multi-faith communities every week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I wouldn’t want — I can’t stress this strongly enough to my party colleagues — I wouldn’t want the party to ever send a message of intolerance to those communities and to people for whom their faith is a very important part of their lives.’’ Mr Foley, who also urged delegates to “think for themselves’’ and disobey orders to vote in factiona­l blocs at the conference, also called on his colleagues to be open to debate on the vexed immig­ration issues of <b>boat</b> turnbacks and the offshore processing of <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I detect an open-mindedness to look at various options,’’ he said. “I think the actions taken by prime minister Rudd in 2013 proved to be effective when he returned to the prime ministership and I wouldn’t want to see the party this week rule out particular measures.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I think there should be an open-mindedness here. What matters is what works.’’ He is also keen for the party to have a discussion about its now 94-year-old official objective.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The language of the so-called socialist objective — probably more accurately a socialisation objective — dates back to 1921,’’ he said. “The central objective of the party is not state ownership.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We support an essential public­ sector and an enterprising private­ sector working side by side, so the state advances the interests of all people.“And I think our central defining objective ought to reflect that, not some antiquated language of 1921 in the immediate fervour following World War I and the Russian­ Revolution.’’</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I admire problems, I don't solve them. Waleed Aly</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A man for all seasons</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Waleed Aly reveals why his move from "serious" radio to "populist" television was irresistible, writes Gordon Farrer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Project mainstays (from left) Peter Helliar, Waleed Aly and Carrie Bickmore.</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WHAT The Project WHEN Weeknights, SC10, 6.30pm THE PITCH With a fresh take and strong views on the day's news, Waleed Aly is making his presence felt on The Project.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">cover story</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">W aleed Aly is a curious cat. He's a deep-thinking academic fronting a prime- time alternative news show on commercial television. At the start of the year he left a sweet gig as host of the prestigious Drive slot on Radio National to go to Channel Ten. He's self-deprecating, quick-witted, a Richmond Tigers diehard, a lawyer and a university lecturer who specialises in terrorism studies. He plays in a rock band, writes regular opinion pieces for Fairfax and hosts a weekly show on RN that delves deep into the prickliest issues of the day. Admirers want him to go into politics. Detractors (well, Andrew Bolt) attack him for being "a pet of the establishment left". When the Walkley Foundation recognised him for the contribution his Fairfax columns make to public commentary, opinion and critique, it praised him for bringing a "fresh perspective" to familiar issues by approaching them from "overlooked or contrarian angles". It seems Aly is many things to many people. Looking at his career you could assume his media presence and persona are part of a cunning strategy to cultivate recognition and a following in a range of key demographics in the electorate with a view to running for office. He insists it's not. As we sit in a small meeting room in Ten's South Yarra offices - him in a Tigers hoodie, eyes sharp, ready to dissect anything that comes his way - Aly speaks freely about his politics, his intellectual disposition, the media and the evil of social media (it has a "corrosive" ethic that impoverishes public discourse). The discussion is complex. Aly never answers without addressing the assumptions of the question, analysing its context and defining its terms before launching into an answer full of finely shaded precision. When you try an experiment and insist he gives only a yes or no response to a range of contentious issues - same- sex marriage, <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> turn-backs, universal healthcare, wind farms - he becomes a writhing, tortured mess. It's not in his DNA to simplify, to not give deeply considered answers. The academic and lawyer in him shouts "ON THE ONE HAND THIS" and "ON THE OTHER HAND THAT". Despite the intellectual rigour of his approach, Aly never comes across as condescending or</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">arrogant. Everything he says is gentle and accommodating, never strident. And he's always ready with a humorous quip, whether the issue under discussion is serious or flippant. The Waleed Aly who turns up to chat about life, the universe and the misconceptions about what he stands for is the same Waleed Aly we see on our screens each weeknight. Aly says it's a misconception that he took a step down by swapping his Radio National job on Drive to go to populist commercial TV; that as the host of The Project he's slumming it, intellectually. "Here's the thing that I find interesting: among those who are surprised (that he made the move), there seems to be this assumption that Radio National is highbrow and commercial TV is lowbrow and that I could never be anything other than highbrow," he says. "Just about every step in that algorithm is wrong. I come from the law and academia, which are shockingly rigorous professions. So, for me, the minute I'm in a studio somewhere, the minute I'm doing broadcast, I'm making an intellectual compromise. In fact, the minute I'm writing in a broadsheet I'm making an intellectual compromise because you can't explore things to the same extent you can in academia and the law." Throw in the additional compromises required by a populist TV show such as The Project, which intersperses meaty hard news with great slabs of corn and levity, and you might think Aly considers that move a comedown. He doesn't. "The whole thing is a compromise. Even the most serious media skirts this balance between rigour and entertainment." Not that Aly makes a value judgment about such distinctions; he'd rather they were dissolved</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">completely. In fact, he prides himself on being able to sit comfortably at different levels, intellectually, on being as at home in a dense academic analysis of terrorism as he is riffing on the Rolling Stones vs Beatles debate. The pleasure for Aly is that by combining his role at the ABC - where he co-hosts The Minefield, a rigorously intellectual yet entertaining dissection of serious social issues - with The Project, he can indulge his thirst for variety. "I like having gears," he says. Commercial TV producers have long complained that politics is a turn-off for audiences in general and the younger demographic in particular. Asked, then, to explain the appeal of The Project as a news program that covers a fair bit of politics, Aly distils the show's approach. "I think it does what nothing else does: [it] communicates a big chunk of news and introduces a whole series of issues to an audience that otherwise couldn't access them - or [wouldn't] access them. And it does it by using entertainment and a tiny bit of irreverence that I find just irresistible. "I think these things are actually inherently interesting, it's just that a lot of people don't realise they are interesting. What they probably mean is that they look at the pantomime that appears on our screens and they don't find that compelling, there's nothing interesting in that. But everybody at some level is interested in politics, even if they don't know that." As for running for office himself, Aly is adamant that he'd be a failure in the job. "I would be a terrible politician," he says, "because ultimately I'm an academic. I admire problems, I don't solve them."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Gordon Farrer lectures in journalism at RMIT.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Bachelard - Michael Bachelard is investigative editor at The Age and a former Fairfax Media Indonesia correspondent.  </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The reduction in live cattle imports points to a troubled relationship, writes Michael Bachelard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the wet markets on the outskirts of Jakarta, the price of beef shot up by 25 per cent in just three days last week. The Indonesian government's unexpected decision on July 10 to slash the quota for Australian live cattle imports means Indonesia's wives and mothers, who are charged with the seasonal responsibility of cooking beef for Ramadan and the feast day following, now confront paying 125,000 rupiah ($12.60) a kilogram for it.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So who is our harried Indonesian mum to blame for the decision to cut the quota from 250,000 to just 50,000 head of cattle this quarter? Can it really be a result of delayed anger in the cabinet of Joko Widodo over Australia's campaign to save Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Queensland independent Bob Katter seems to think so. He said last week that Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop had gone out of their way in "provoking, confronting and speaking in a most arrogant manner" to Indonesia in that case.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The president of the Australia Indonesia Business Council, Debnath Guharoy, amplified the point, saying Indonesia was not happy with the way Australia was conducting its diplomacy - particularly relating to <b>boat</b> turn-backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The megaphone is not working," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But if Indonesia intends to punish the Australian government, both the timing and the tenor of the cut's announcement are odd.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It comes almost three months after Australia's vocal, principled (apart from Tony Abbott's tsunami-aid remark) campaign to save Chan and Sukumaran from the firing squad. Perhaps Katter is suggesting the pair should have been abandoned to their fate in return for maintaining the size of the cattle trade?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On turn-backs: the most recent, in which Indonesian crew were paid by Australian personnel to return their cargo of <b>asylum</b> seekers, was diplomatically dreadful. But it's far from the biggest incident that the two countries have weathered without harm to the beef trade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As for the announcement of the quota cut, it was low-key, almost bureaucratic. No Indonesian official has sought to make political mileage out of Australia's clear discomfort. This is not in keeping with the bluff and bluster that is the signature feature of previous contretemps between the two neighbours.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And just a week after the announcement, the cabinet of Joko Widodo appears to be getting cold feet. On Wednesday, Trade Minister Rachmat Gobel said the decision to cut the quota was only temporary and done because the government wanted to evaluate its own beef stocks amid concerns of an over-supply from eastern Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That is highly unlikely to be true. Much more likely is that it's an attempt at political cover for a decision that the agriculture minister made but the trade minister ratified.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All this has left Australian industry figures and analysts scratching their heads. They had wanted a new quota of 275,000, according to one well-placed industry source, and the agriculture ministry had been hinting they would get about 200,000. They got a quarter of that.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The intricate, internecine politics of Jakarta - which may or may not involve jockeying for favour ahead of a possible cabinet reshuffle, conflicts of interest and even corruption - makes interpreting the real reasons behind such decisions extremely difficult.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But some things are clear.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesian politics has a few touchstones that verge on holy writ. They persist despite all counter-factual evidence, and most of them can be traced to the utterances of the first Indonesian president, Sukarno - father of Joko Widodo's political patron Megawati Sukarnoputri.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As former diplomat Ken Ward writes in an excellent primer on the Indonesia-Australia relationship, released this weekend: "Sukarno saw the world in the 1950s and 1960s as dominated by exploitative forces whose interests were incompatible with Indonesia's.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"This outlook has endured in one form or another ever since," he writes. "It underlies the continuing suspicion of foreign investment, and the striving for self-sufficiency that appears from time to time. It prompts claims that this or that agreement with a foreign country or deal with a foreign company amounts to Indonesia's being 'bought'."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both Joko and his rival presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto bowed to the self-sufficiency shibboleth during the last presidential election campaign. Joko has since promised that, within five years, Indonesia will be able to feed itself from its own production of beef, soy beans, sugar, corn and rice.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Among some policy makers in Jakarta, there is the apparently sincere belief that self-sufficiency can be achieved simply by cutting imports. From the extra demand for home-grown products, almost magically, beef supply will come forth to fill a void, they believe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This would not be the first time that policy makers in Jakarta have acted decisively and tested this idea. Between 2011 and 2013, the quota was cut after Australia unilaterally suspended exports over animal cruelty revelations. Indonesia then followed with a sustained attempt at achieving demand-led self-sufficiency by maintaining a tiny quota of imports.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The result was a fiasco. The price of beef skyrocketed and the local abattoirs started hacking into breeding cows and the dairy herd simply to feed the growing demand for red meat. The size of the Indonesian herd fell, and the prospect of real self-sufficiency was, no doubt, set back by decades.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Finally, before the fasting-feasting season of 2013, the policy was reversed and the ships ground back into action.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's hard to believe this is another serious attempt at the same policy outcome, but it's likewise hard to see what other reason could exist.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is not to say that Australia's execrable ongoing relationship with Indonesia is entirely absent from the political calculus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Punishing Australia is, for an Indonesian politician, a victimless crime. We are unpopular there at the best of times, and the Abbott government's tenure has come fairly close to being the worst of times, for all the reasons we already know.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So, while this drastic, late and puzzling cut in cattle imports should not be construed as a direct attack on Australia, it would be fair to say that few Indonesians will regret that it hurts us.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As one commenter on a Jakarta Post story wrote on Thursday: "Aust. is not an important country to deal with".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Eventually, though, the women at the wet market will have their say and, just as happened in the past, the quota of Australian cattle will increase again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They may not like it but Indonesia has very few other options.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>No pain, no gain</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HOLLY BYRNES   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>624 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Anh Do will have a crack at anything - even when it means a world of hurt, writes HOLLY BYRNES</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ANH Do's philosophy in life isn't for the faint of heart.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Inspired by the resilience and courage of his <b>refugee</b> father Tam - who captained a small fishing <b>boat</b> of 40 people, fleeing Vietnam for Australia in 1980 - Do often poses himself a simple but confronting question when considering new projects or challenges.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I ask myself: 'If I fail, are 40 people going to die, including my wife and young children?' If the answer is 'no', then let's move forward and have a crack'," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That attitude has connected Do to local audiences and made his travel series a surprising hit. His infectious enthusiasm and energy are apparent from the opening credits - and within minutes, so too the risk - of his latest adventure Anh Does Italy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Throwing himself into day one of filming, taking on locals in a game of bubble soccer (competitors wear an inflatable body suit), the rugby league fanatic was blindsided in a tackle and ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The producer said, 'Look, mate, we can go home. It's your call'," he says. "But I thought, we've come all this way and I've got all this fun stuff coming up, so I said, 'Hit me with the painkillers'."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Days later, he was literally back on the horse: "Tearing down a bumpy field on these dodgy antique chariots, at lightning speed and holding on with one leg," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The horse has turned the corner and I'm thinking I'm going to fly off here. I'm bracing for the fall but I just hang on by my fingertips."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Challenging himself is all part of the appeal for the 38-year-old, whose personal credits include bestselling author [his autobiography, The Happiest <b>Refugee</b> was a smashhit upon release in 2011 and his children's book series Weirdo sells like hot cakes]; actor [he got his break in the acclaimed SeaChange but is best known as Chen Chong Fat in SBS comedy series Pizza]; and artist [he was a finalist in last year's Archibald portrait prize].</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Getting up close to the works of European masters such as Da Vinci and Caravaggio on his latest TV trip was a life moment, he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"You go to Florence and all the paintings you've seen in books are there," Do says. "To see them in real life, it just blows your mind."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ANH DOES ITALY</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TUESDAY, 7.30PM, AND THURSDAY, 8PM, SEVEN</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And Anh-other thing about Do</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IT'S a hot political topic, but Anh Do is cool, not complacent, about the <b>refugee</b> issue. He has never been drawn into the <b>asylum</b>-seeker debate, saying: "I'm not a megaphone sort of guy."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Russell Crowe, who will direct a film adaptation of The Happiest <b>Refugee</b>, is more effusive, telling TV Guide exclusively: "Anh Do possesses a deep well of creativity - a renaissance man if ever there was one.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"His stand-up comedy makes me laugh, his public speaking gives me goosebumps, his writing engages me emotionally and his painting impresses me. It's pretty obvious I'm a fan, right? I hope to bring his family's story to the big screen to honour their journey and sacri ce but also to honour the country they chose as their new home."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Do was recently voted in at No.5 in a top 10 of Australia's most popular personalities - a result he finds amusing. "I'm not even the fifth most popular person in my family, so I don't know where they did that poll," he says.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Get ready to be outraged again</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>WENDY TUOHY   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>706 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>68</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">HERE we go again; this time probably more furiously than all those times before. Get ready for the latest cycle of online shaming and probably defaming someone put on TV to be the target of our rage: in this case a woman chosen to divide, maybe disgust us with her insensitivity. And possibly our own.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meet Kim Vuga from the new series of Go Back To Where you Came From. She’s the latest reality TV “star” carefully selected for us to love to hate.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the rate pre-publicity is trending, Vuga, pictured above at left, could turn out to be our best hate-bait yet. And as we know, along with pitying the underdog, having someone to despise holds reality together.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On her <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> page called Stop the <b>Boat</b> People, she posted a graphic stating migrants come here to “take your jobs and wives, to destroy your way of life … give you diseases and do evil in general”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The profile picture is a photo of the slogan “This is Australia: We eat meat, we drink beer and we speak f-ckin’ English”. You’d be pushed to find more eye-catching publicity than that.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And when the show premiers later this month, stuff about Vuga will clog your social media feed because — like all the best reality villains before her — she seems not to give a stuff.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">You or I may be affected by her messages about <b>asylum</b> seekers, but she’ll have her likers too, so producers already know they can sit back and rub their hands.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Setting someone up to start fires in our lounge rooms is a model that has worked well before. Think Andrea Moss, cartoon villain of the first series of Real Housewives of Melbourne. Or think precious “princess” Jennifer Evans, made infamous in an early series of My Kitchen Rules.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Or consider The Block’s “b-y” twins Alisa and Lysandra Fraser and the apparently stuck-up Melbourne “snobs” Ash Pollard and Camilla Counsel from this year’s MKR.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They all seem to feel confident they can defy the formula and make it work for them, but they are inevitably bowled over by our bile. We watch them struggle to raise their image above how it comes across — while failing to acknowledge we’re being played as well. That’s the real curiosity of these shows that trade on making us feel angry. We judgy viewers feel like we have permission to get as ugly we like, when in fact all we are is fish lunging for shiny bait.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We may think we’ve chosen the “good” one to support and the “baddie” to vent about, but we’re just as complicit as those behind-the-scenes in manufacturing the bitterness.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Why do we take such joy, anyway, from jumping online over a TV show to beat each other up?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What is missing in our lives that we need to invest so much nasty emotion in characters created — or at least seriously enhanced — by “reality” TV? Isn’t it a worry that all this random b-ing makes us feel good? We don’t want to know that the people we took pleasure in dismantling often say they feel damaged by what they see as inaccurate or unfair portrayal. All that acid-throwing was too much fun.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nor do we want to what was cut, time-shifted or manipulated; who wants to hear another angle on someone you felt so free to hate?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I think it’s worth considering how healthy it is to go online and join the trolls. You may be convinced a character deserves it, but doesn’t flaming-as-fun speak more about the person holding the remote?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If you do feel empathy for true <b>asylum</b> seekers, Vuga will seriously grate. But rather than stacking on a person put there to upset you, why not save the fire for more useful activism?Surely doing something constructive in the real world is a better use of heartbeats than jumping on <span class="companylink">Twitter</span>. You may struggle not to lash out at Kim Vuga, but buying into hashtag hatred just reveals the dark side in our culture and ourselves.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document HERSUN0020150718eb7j00036</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020150717eb7i0002i" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Migrants need West's care, not more suffering</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Arjan Hehenkamp
in London   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>653 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Migrants need West's care, not more suffering</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">60 million people now displaced</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">COMMENT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Arjan Hehenkamp in London</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Migration is a global problem, and <b>refugee</b> and migrant policies are failing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The evidence of mass migration is everywhere: <b>boat</b> loads of emaciated people adrift on the Andaman Sea, begging for water; exhausted refugees staggering out of the surf on Greek islands; desperate families breaking down the barbed wire fence separating Turkey and Syria to escape the battles being fought a few miles away. What are they fleeing from? Those who make it from Libya tell dreadful stories of beheadings, torture and rape, while there are reports of people being enslaved in jungle camps in south-east Asia and buried in mass graves. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. According to the United Nations, 60 million people are now displaced - the largest number since World War II. This is almost equal to the entire population of Britain, and 86 per cent of these people are hosted by poor countries in the developing world. For the West, this accident of location has helped foster an attitude of "out of sight, out of mind". But as the number of people escaping war and poverty in the Middle East and Sahel region of Africa increases, we are just beginning to understand the enormity of the issue. Migration is a global problem, and <b>refugee</b> and migrant policies are failing. The 1951 <b>Refugee</b> Convention and other national and international migration policies established to provide safe haven and protection are spectacularly insufficient. The proof of this failure comes when we hear the same stories of fear, misery and violence the world over. The international <b>asylum</b> and <b>refugee</b> framework is limited by the political will of the very people tasked with handling it, and even then it remains a standard of protection not recognised by many of the countries concerned by this issue. Many signatory states fail to meet their obligations and policies on migration fluctuate with domestic political sentiment. Non-signatory states evade their responsibility altogether. Prosperous governments claim humanitarian credentials by financing aid to <b>refugee</b> camps in Turkey, Pakistan, Lebanon, Kenya, Ethiopia and elsewhere, warehousing people for years on end, while at the same time making it difficult, if not impossible, for those living in these extreme</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">conditions to set foot within their own borders. These same countries then reach agreements to pass on their refugees, often to states economically much worse off than themselves. Australia goes one step further, forcibly returning people at sea, detaining would-be <b>asylum</b> seekers offshore while cutting overseas aid commitments. Does this approach work? No, people fearing for their lives in their home country do not stay put because the fences are higher, they merely look for an alternative - often via a more perilous route. Australia was once one of the main destinations for Afghan <b>asylum</b> seekers, particularly for the persecuted Hazara minority, but its strict migration policy is now driving these same people on to boats headed for Greece and Italy. Politicians claim success for their strict policies but in reality the "problem" is not solved at all, it is simply transferred to another place. In a world plagued by conflict, poverty and inequality, population movements are inevitable. Our governments must choose between implementing policies that will ultimately result in human harm, or in its reduction. We advocate for the latter and our request is simple: governments - particularly those that pride themselves on enforcing human rights - must manage migration in a way that minimises suffering rather than creates it. Stop applying policies that kill and intensify the anguish. Provide protection and assistance based on humanitarian imperatives according to needs and ensuring dignity. If we don't we will only watch as the extreme suffering continues. Independent Arjan Hehenkamp is General Director of Mdecins Sans Frontires</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Nuke deal boosts Iran relations</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>STEFANIE BALOGH, EXCLUSIVE   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>501 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Iran has confirmed it is negotiating with the Abbott government the possible repatriation of hundreds of economic migrants who unlawfully travelled to Australi­a by <b>boat</b>, as Tehran looks to use a global deal on its nuclear ambitions­ to come in from the cold.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A spokesman for the Iranian ambassador to Australia, Abdolhossein Vahaji, said discussions on failed <b>asylum</b>-seekers had been “under way between the two side(s) for a while’’. “The main point for us is that any repatriation should be on a voluntarily basis and forceful repat­riation is out of (the) question,’’ the spokesman told The Australian.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Foreign Minister Julie Bishop visited Tehran in April to work on building closer diplomatic ties with Iran, the first trip by an Australian minister to the former pariah state in 12 years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of her key missions was to seek agreement on the return of failed Iranian <b>asylum</b>-seekers who travelled to Australia during the reign of the former Labor government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senior Iranian officials travelled to Canberra last month to continue talks on a possible deal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than 8000 Iranians, predominantly male, remain in Australian detention centres or are on bridging visas in the community. There also more than 600 Iranians housed in regional processing centres on Nauru and Manus Islan­d in Papua New Guinea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The spokesman for the Iranian embassy in Canberra said Tehran was also working with Australia on “other aspects of consular, tourism and cultural co-operation’’. “There are many areas for co-operation that should be grasped by the two side(s),’’ he said. “It would be in the benefit of long-term bilateral relations of the two countries.’’ This week Tehran and the powerful P5+1 — the five permanent members of the <span class="companylink">UN Security Council</span>: the US, Russia, Britain, China and France, plus Germany — ended a 13-year standoff over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, reaching a historic pact designed to ensure Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon in return for easing sanctions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tony Abbott has cautiously welcomed the deal, which was hailed by US President Barack Obama but denounced as a “historic mistake’’ by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The spokesman for the Iranian embassy in Canberra said Iran hoped the bilateral relationship with Australia could expand in the wake of the pact. “It is important that the ties can be diversified as much as possible,’’ the spokesman said. “Many opportunities exist for co-operation.’’ “The Australians’ side is aware of these opportunities and it is up to different Australian institutions to decide about the expansion of the ties to the level which has been before the sanctions and even further­.’’ But Victorian Labor MP Mich­ael Danby said the international nuclear agreement with Iran “in no way justifies the Australian government changing travel advis­ories, opening intelligence-sharing arrangements with Iran or agreeing to the opening of Iranian consulates in Melbourne or Sydney, as the Foreign Minister has floated’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WORLD P10EDITORIAL P13</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>No refugees resettled from Manus</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nicole Hasham   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>540 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b> seekers - Two have died</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More <b>asylum</b> seekers have died on Manus Island than have been resettled, gay detainees are mistreated, and refugees are not allowed to work or move freely, a report by human rights groups says.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is two years since the former Labor government announced <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrived by <b>boat</b> without a visa would be denied <b>refugee</b> status in Australia but resettled in Papua New Guinea, via assessment at Manus Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since then, not one has been resettled. This is despite Australian immigration officials confirming 129 detainees have been deemed genuine refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two <b>asylum</b> seekers sent to Manus have died - one killed during riots that swept through the detention centre and one from septicaemia after cutting his foot.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Department of Immigration and Border Protection on Thursday said of those found to be genuine refugees on Manus, 41 have been transferred from detention to a transit centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another 41 have been transferred to a nearby transit centre. However, a report released on Thursday by <span class="companylink">Human Rights Watch</span> and the Human Rights Law Centre said the men were prevented from leaving the island and denied opportunities to work and study.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Refugees are allowed to leave the transit centre, but many were not given identity documents enabling them to find work, the report said. One <b>refugee</b> was not allowed to travel to Port Moresby for work and others were reportedly denied volunteer work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Homosexuality is illegal in PNG and the report found gay men were mistreated in detention by other detainees - "shunned or sexually abused or assaulted and used by the other men".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The gay men said they had frequent nightmares, were extremely depressed, and isolated themselves, often not leaving their rooms."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The report said the detention centre was overcrowded and detainees suffered depression and anxiety. The groups visited the island in June and July and interviewed <b>asylum</b> seekers, refugees, United Nations agencies and PNG immigration officials, police and hospital staff. They were allowed access to the transit centre but not the detention centre. In the 2013-14 financial year the federal government spent $437.6m to run detention facilities on Manus. There are 943 transferees on the island including the refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"More <b>asylum</b> seekers sent to Manus have died than have been resettled," Human Rights Law Centre director of legal advocacy Daniel Webb said. "People found to be refugees deserve a real solution - not a transfer to a facility down the road where they remain in limbo."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An immigration department spokeswoman said <b>refugee</b> determination, settlement and law and order issues "are matters for the PNG government".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Comment has been sought from the PNG government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meanwhile, <span class="companylink">Shine Lawyers</span> social justice counsel George Newhouse says the government's controversial new border force laws would prevent detention centre staff from documenting riots such those on Manus Island last year, or from writing about their work in personal diaries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said doctors and nurses in state and territory hospitals who treated <b>asylum</b> seekers would also be covered by the secrecy provisions forced on detention centre workers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The immigration department said emergency room doctors and nurses "working in their normal roles" would not be captured by the laws.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | ghum : Human Rights/Civil Liberties | gcat : Political/General News | gcom : Society/Community | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>papng : Papua New Guinea | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | pacisz : Pacific Islands</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AGEE000020150716eb7h00037</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020150715eb7g0002c" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Christmas Island tops destinations for frequent flyers</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>STEFANIE BALOGH   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>225 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The most-travelled international route by federal govern­ment frequent flyers has been revealed as the island hop from Perth to Christmas Island, pipping the trip from Sydney to Los Angeles. Of the $377 million of taxpayer funds spent in 2013-14 getting politicians and bureaucrats into the air, domestic flights accounted for $234m and international flights $134m. The Christmas Island route is classed as international.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The top domestic route was predictably Sydney-Canberra, followed by Melbourne-Canberra.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The top international routes after Perth-Christmas Island and Sydney-Los Angeles, were Sydney-Singapore, and Port Moresby-Manus Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The flights to Christmas Island and Manus underline the cost of dealing with <b>asylum</b>-seekers who arrived by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government’s so-called airline panel agreement, which comprises separate domestic and international deeds, expires next April.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Finance Department will approach the market later this year for new contracts, which could last up to 10 years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">About 150 government entities and 100,000 travellers across the Australian government use the services, and the requirements include VIP bookings, group travel, and “specialised travel booking services’’ which can be anything from transporting dangerous goods, <b>asylum</b>-seekers, prisoners or unaccompanied baggage.The government’s discussion paper also stresses that “for international travel, the airline must provide highly competitive fares’’.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | chr : Christmas Island | lax : Los Angeles | sydney : Sydney | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | namz : North America | nswals : New South Wales | seasiaz : Southeast Asia | usa : United States | usca : California | usw : Western U.S.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020150715eb7g0002c</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020150715eb7g00009" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Chaos over carbon hits Shorten</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DENNIS SHANAHAN, SID MAHER   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>903 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten faces a destructive Coalition carbon tax scare campaign through to the next election after the damaging leak of draft Labor plans for an emissions trading scheme and an extra tax on electricity generators further ­undermined his leadership cred­ibility.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Opposition Leader and his frontbench colleagues were forced to play down the importance of an internal Labor proposal to introduce a carbon price and limit greenhouse gas emissions from power generators after Tony Abbott accused the ALP of wanting to revive “a triple whammy” carbon tax.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senior Labor sources said the document was a discussion draft, there had not been any decisions on electricity or vehicle emissions schemes and carbon policy had not yet been the subject of a meeting of shadow cabinet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Labor will not introduce a carbon tax,’’ Mr Shorten said, dismissing suggestions to the contrary as “complete rubbish’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sources conceded the leak, whether a deliberate attempt to undermine Mr Shorten or an accident, was damaging.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The leak came a week before an ALP national conference, where the Left and Right factions will battle for control amid ­looming contentious debates on <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> turnbacks, the Israel-Palestine question, a binding vote on same-sex marriage and climate policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While it had been widely ­expected the opposition would take a revived emissions trading scheme to the next election, the Prime Minister yesterday leapt on the chance to tar Mr Shorten with a carbon tax after successfully using such campaigns to help bring down Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard as Labor prime ministers in 2010 and 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Now we find out that if Labor were to come back, the carbon tax would be back,” Mr Abbott said. “Not just the carbon tax that we had before, but a carbon tax which is going to have a triple-whammy effect; a carbon tax that will act as an emissions trading scheme on households, a special carbon tax on power generation, and yet another carbon tax on cars. This just shows that Labor can’t learn and hasn’t changed. And it shows that Bill Shorten is, in every respect, a carbon copy of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.” Mr Shorten responded to the disclosure with an emphatic ­denial that Labor would introduce a carbon tax and the accusation that Mr Abbott “hates to talk about climate change”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“But I tell you what we will do, we won’t stick our heads in the sand, bury ourselves in the past and ignore climate change,” he said. “The Labor Party I lead ­believes in climate change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The choice is clear in Australia. You’ve got Mr Abbott who doesn’t like solar power, doesn’t like wind power, is walking away from investing in it, jeopardising business certainty and the thousands of jobs that go with it, or you’ve got my Labor team. We believe in climate change, we don’t believe in passing the problems of pollution to future generations, and our focus will be on renewable energy, and there is going to be no carbon tax.” Despite the quick response from Mr Shorten, the Labor leadership team knows the carbon tax attack will further hurt his standing in the polls and continue to pose a political challenge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten’s public approval has suffered after the ABC’s Killing Season revisited his role in the demise of Mr Rudd and Ms Gillard and last week’s appearance at the trade union royal commission.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The document, prepared by environment spokesman Mark Butler, was relatively tightly held, having been distributed to about 10 MPs, although sections had been given to experts for consultation. There had been several different drafts of the discussion, which had been circulated to various groups within the party but not taken to shadow cabinet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The leaked document discussed a modified version of the original carbon tax that would be resurrected in the first-term of a Labor government with a separate scheme for the electricity sector and another for other sectors.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Although businesses would be offered “no upfront cost’’ in the first phase between next year and 2019, firms that exceeded the cap would have to buy international credits to offset their emissions. A second post-2020 phase with tougher requirements would be worked out in government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The draft also canvassed Canadian and US-style regulations to limit the emissions intensity and operating life of power plants, and an intermediate energy efficiency target. Adopting European and US vehicle emissions standards was also canvassed, with forecasts this could add $1500 to the cost of a new car by 2025 but this would be offset by fuel savings of $830 in the first year and $8500 over the life of the vehicle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Butler said Labor had not finalised its climate policies but it would not introduce a carbon tax and would instead take to the next election an emissions trading scheme. He said the leaked document was one of a series of discussion papers “to guide the thinking of the leadership from the shadow cabinet in this area’’<span class="companylink">.Energy Supply Association of Australia</span> chief executive Matthew Warren called for an end to the politicisation of climate change policy. He said the effect of a decade of chronic climate policy failure had been to render the electricity generation sector virtually unbankable, and to exhaust the patience of businesses and consumers.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>IN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>i1 : Energy</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gclimt : Climate Change | genv : Environmental News | gpol : Domestic Politics | npag : Page-One Stories | reqren : Suggested Reading   Energy | gcat : Political/General News | gglobe : Global/World Issues | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | redit : Selection of Top Stories/Trends/Analysis | reqr : Suggested Reading   Industry News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020150715eb7g00009</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020150715eb7g0001j" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Stanhope pushes for kinder <b>refugee</b> policy</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Tom McIlroy   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>454 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A006</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stanhope pushes for kinder <b>refugee</b> policy</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Tom McIlroy</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former ACT chief minister Jon Stanhope has joined Labor rank- and-file members calling for a more compassionate policy towards <b>asylum</b> seekers, days before expected debate at the party's national conference. Speaking before a Labor for Refugees forum in Canberra on Wednesday night, the former Christmas Island administrator said he had "a heavy heart" about Labor's position and Australia's hardline stance - while also acknowledging the party could move to adopt harsher <b>boat</b> turn- backs as its policy. "I don't support indefinite, mandatory off-shore detention and all that entails, in terms of the</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">way in which people who have arrived in Australia by <b>boat</b> and seeking our protection have simply been palmed off to other nations," Mr Stanhope said. "We've delegated our responsibilities, I think, as a caring and compassionate nation to countries which, to be as kind as one can be, have major issues of their own." Mr Stanhope's calls come as senior Labor figures, including former defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon, argue for the party to adopt <b>boat</b> turn-backs and other tougher border-protection policies closer to the Abbott government. <b>Asylum</b>-seeker policy is expected to be one of the most hotly contested issues at the conference, which gets under way in Melbourne on July 24. Some of Labor's Right faction believe moving the party's policy closer to the Abbott government's tough stance and rhetoric could help stop new waves of <b>asylum</b>- seeker boats coming to Australia under a future Labor government. Mr Stanhope, who served as ACT chief minister from 2001 to 2011, has become outspoken on a range of Labor issues, including on the end of self-government on Norfolk Island, housing affordability and the party's ongoing reliance on poker-machine profits from Canberra clubs. He said ongoing detention of <b>asylum</b> seekers, including about 100 children in offshore detention centres on Manus Island and</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nauru, was a failure of Australia's human rights obligations. "I just cannot and will not accept that the Australian Labor Party or Australia should be locking up children indefinitely as a means of deterring other people from seeking to claim <b>asylum</b> in Australia. We are knowingly and deliberately destroying lives and the future of people to serve a political end and it is abhorrent." Mr Stanhope said party members who opposed harsh treatment of <b>asylum</b> seekers should not give up their stance, as members of the federal opposition seek to avoid being wedged by the Abbott Coalition government on the issue. He said Labor had an obligation to speak up for refugees in the national debate.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020150715eb7g0001j</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-ADVTSR0020150714eb7f0006k" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Sarah’s Italian job</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>142 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SENATOR Sarah Hanson-Young has used taxpayer money to help fund a trip to rescue illegal arrivals off Italy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday, she was on board the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) vessel, owned by an American millionaire, when 414 adults and children were rescued in the Mediterranean.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The MOAS has been accused of acting as a taxi service, ferrying <b>asylum</b> seekers from sinking boats to Italy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Critics claim the <b>boat</b>, which uses drones to find boats in trouble, makes it more attractive for people smugglers to earn more than $400,000 because it provides a safety net on the Mediterranean.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Amazing to experience the rescue of 414 men, women & children out here at sea,’’ Ms Hanson-Young tweeted. Her office last night confirmed that taxpayer funding had paid for an economy class fare home when she returns.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document ADVTSR0020150714eb7f0006k</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-DAITEL0020150714eb7f0003n" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Senator gushes over ‘amazing’ <b>asylum</b> seeker experience</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DANIEL MEERS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>440 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SENATOR Sarah Hanson-Young, who callously claimed “tragedies happen, accidents happen” after an <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> sank between Australia and Indonesia, has used taxpayer money to help fund a trip to rescue illegal arrivals off Italy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Greens Senator brushed off the deaths of 200 <b>asylum</b> seekers when a vessel sank in 2011 and slammed the Abbott government’s <b>boat</b> policy despite it ending the 1100 deaths at sea which happened under the previous government.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday she was on board the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) vessel, owned by an American millionaire, when 414 adults and children were rescued on the Mediterranean Sea between Libya and Italy. The MOAS has been ­accused of acting as a taxi service ferrying <b>asylum</b> seekers from sinking boats to Italy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Critics claim the <b>boat</b>, which uses drones to find boats in trouble, makes it more attractive for people smugglers to earn more than $400,000 because it provides a ­safety net on the Mediterranean.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Amazing to experience the rescue of 414 men, women & children out here at sea,’’ Ms Hanson-Young tweeted along with a string of photos of <b>asylum</b> seekers taken on board the MOAS vessel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Daily Telegraph can reveal Ms Hanson-Young’s liberating ­experience was made possible thanks to Australian taxpayers. The outspoken Green emptied what ­remained of her now grandfathered overseas study travel allowance, ­believed to be about $3000, to assist with flights.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Her office last night confirmed taxpayer funding had paid for an economy class fare home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A spokeswoman said the remainder of the European trip was personally funded. Then-prime minister Julia Gillard phased out the perk which MPs had previously used to have “study tours” to places like Las Vegas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some in the Greens claimed Ms Hanson-Young spent days in Rome while on the trip, which included meetings at the <span class="companylink">UN</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton’s spokesman said Ms Hanson- Young’s behaviour was hypocritical: “It’s a pity this Senator wasn’t so caring when hundreds of illegal maritime arrivals were dying in waters to Australia’s north after the Greens and Labor threw open our borders to the people smugglers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“No one will ever forget her callous ‘tragedies happen, accidents happen’ response to the loss of those lives.” Ms Hanson-Young, who is due back in Australia this week, said the work was a privilege.“I have the privilege to be a part of a search-and-rescue mission with MOAS in the Mediterranean Sea, and witness the incredible work this organisation does to save lives at sea,” she wrote on <span class="companylink">Facebook</span>.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Tom Allard and Judith Ireland   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>801 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A005</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia on the nose as Jakarta turns back the beef</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Tom Allard and Judith Ireland</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PPope's view - Times2</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A helicopter is used to muster cattle in the Northern Territory. Photo: GLENN CAMPBELL</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia's "megaphone" diplomacy and lack of consultation with Indonesia over policies like <b>boat</b> turnbacks has caused widespread unhappiness in Jakarta and harmed relations, the head of the peak body representing Australian businesses operating there says. The unusually blunt assessment came as Indonesia dramatically cut its permits for live cattle exports for the three months ending Septemberto 50,000 animals, significantly less than the 200,000 expected and the 250,000 quota for the quarter just gone. Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce described the decision as "disappointing" and vowed to find alternative markets. Senior government ministers denied the decision was linked to the tense diplomatic relations between the twonations. However, Debnath Guharoy, president of the Australia Indonesia Business Council, said there was little doubt Australia was unpopular with</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">the Indonesian government at the moment. "In my communications with Indonesian agencies and government departments, the overwhelming sentiment I am feeling is they are unhappy with Australia. They are not happy with the way we are conducting our diplomacy. The megaphone is not working," he said. "The truth is, in terms of the business relationship, it doesn't help. The fact that we make decisions unilaterally without consultation and tell them to just deal with the consequences, we just have to conduct our diplomacy better than we have been." Mr Guharoy said the issue of <b>boat</b> turnbacks "was just the most recent example" of the kind of diplomacy that is upsetting Indonesia. "Perhaps, it's the biggest [example]," he added. The Abbott government has turned back numerous boats laden with <b>asylum</b> seekers and encroached on Indonesia's maritime territory in the process. Most recently, allegations emerged that Australian spies were bribing people smugglers to return to</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesia, further antagonising and astonishing Jakarta. The <b>boat</b> turnbacks came on top of the controversy about Australian eavesdropping on the former Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his wife under Labor, as well as the execution of the Bali nine drug traffickers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said she had been "assured" the permit cuts were a trade issue, rejecting assertions by Labor that there may be a link to the diplomatic troubles. "It's not in relation to the overall Australia-Indonesia relationship, which is very strong and very good as I've said on a number of occasions," she said. But Mr Guharoy said it was time to speak plainly about the state of the relationship, and the poor diplomacy from Australia that was undermining it. "I've been urged by our membership to man up and tell the truth. I believe it's a service to the nation to tell the truth about what's happening."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just weeks ago, former Indonesian foreign minister Marty Natalegawa said relations between Australia and Indonesia appeared to be at their lowest point. Mr Joyce told reporters in Perth on Tuesday that he hoped he could "rectify" the situation "soon". "Obviously I would like the opportunity as soon as I can to meet up with the respective ministers responsible in Indonesia," he said. Mr Joyce said the live cattle trade to Indonesia was "incredibly important" and it was up to him to find alternative markets. Northern Territory farmers are now scrambling to find a market for about 150,000 head of cattle. Northern Territory Cattlemen's Association Tracey Hayes said that there were some options but "it's not an overnight scenario". The opposition also pointed to Mr Joyce's split with cabinet over the government's approval of the Shenhua coal mine in his electorate. "The situation in Indonesia is a shocking development but should not have been entirely unexpected if minister Joyce was across his brief</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">and not distracted by his internal wars with cabinet," agriculture spokesman Joel Fitzgibbon said. Indonesian beef importers told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> that the permit cut reflected a belief, likely mistaken, in the Indonesian government that it had enough local cattle to meet demand. Indonesia has long sought agricultural self-sufficiency. However, in the past, Indonesia has scrambled to increase live cattle import permits after they misjudged local supply and prices rose sharply, angering consumers. Mr Guharoy lamented that the potential to greatly expand the economic relationship between the two countries was not being realised. "We are neighbours but when you look at our economies, we are not really competitors in a business sense," he said. "There is a great logic for us to co- operate together in Asia. But we have missed that opportunity time and time again."</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Agriculture
Jared Lynch   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>412 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>B009</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wanted: buyer for 150,000 spare cattle</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Agriculture Jared Lynch</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesia has drastically cut the number of cattle it will accept this quarter.Photo: Glenn Campbell</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Northern Territory farmers are scrambling to find a market for about 150,000 head of cattle after Indonesia slashed the number it will accept. Indonesia - which accounts for about 56 per cent of Australia's $1.3 billion live export market - will take only 50,000 head of cattle this quarter, down from 250,000 for the same period in 2014. The dramatic reduction is expected to hit farmers in the Northern Territory hardest. They had expected to export 200,000 head of cattle - or about two thirds of their total exports - to Indonesia this quarter. "It represents significant logistical challenges," said Northern Territory Cattlemen's Association chief executive Tracey Hayes. "We do have some market options but it's not an overnight scenario. The product destined for the Indonesian feeder market is not necessarily transferable into some of these other markets quickly." Indonesia's weight limit for feeder cattle is 350 kilograms, while Vietnam, which is an emerging export market, prefers a heavier animal that can be slaughtered almost immediately. Labor has blamed Canberra's tense relationship with Jakarta over the executions of Australian drug smugglers Andrew Chan and</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Myuran Sukumara, as well the Abbott government's <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> turn-back policy, for the live cattle reduction. But Ms Hayes and other cattle producers doubt the cuts were motivated by Australia's rocky relationship with Indonesia, instead saying it stemmed more from Indonesia's aim of self sufficiency in beef production. "There's internal pressures in</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesia, competing pressures between the ministry for agriculture and the ministry for trade, balancing the concerns of the Indonesia farmer against the consumer," Ms Hayes said. She said cut in quota was "completely different" to the live export ban to Indonesia in 2011 under the Gillard Labor government. "Back then we didn't have as many market choices really - that</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">was the issue. There was no plan B. The tap was turned off completely. Mark Allison, the chief executive of one of Australia's biggest live cattle exporters, Elders, said he "suspected" Indonesia may not have enough beef to feed the nation this quarter. "In terms of self sufficiency, it seems of the numbers of their domestic cattle, that's probably a few years away," he said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>MH17 DVI simon walsh gk</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Gabrielle Knowles   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>676 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015, West Australian Newspapers Limited   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Almost a year after a <span class="companylink">Malaysia Airlines</span> plane was shot down over Ukraine, the painstaking efforts continue to identify the remaining two victims from the catastrophe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under the world’s anxious gaze, international teams of forensic experts working in a temporary mortuary at a military base in the Netherlands have identified and returned 296 of the 298 passengers and crew to their grieving families.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A Dutchman was the first MH17 passenger identified from his fingerprints just three days after the first military planes carried coffins from Ukraine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All 38 Australians were identified by December.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But as the first anniversary of the tragedy approaches, the disaster victim identification experts — who include Australians — are still hoping they can bring the same comfort to the families of two Dutch citizens not yet identified.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">During another visit to the crash site in war-torn eastern Ukraine this year, authorities retrieved a number of very small potential human remains from near where the plane’s central fuselage burned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><span class="companylink">Australian Federal Police</span> chief forensic scientist Simon Walsh, who led the Australian team responding to the incident, said those samples were still being analysed in the Netherlands using world-leading DNA techniques.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dr Walsh acknowledged the work to identify victims was harrowing but the experts were trained professionals who tried to distance themselves emotionally and approach their work scientifically.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“But it’s still challenging and one of the things that has been a significant feature of this operation was the impact on Australia. It was the largest loss of life offshore since Bali,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Everyone who had some role in helping identify the victims was aware of that and it was a motivating factor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We work essentially for the families of those affected by the incident and can do work that is difficult but necessary and ultimately assists them to have their loved ones returned to them.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dr Walsh said the forensic teams held small ceremonies to mark significant moments at the base in Hilversum — including the first identification and the first repatriation — to pay respect to those who died.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">DNA, fingerprints and dental records were used to identify the victims. But scars, tattoos, medical procedures, clothing, jewellery and belongings could also provide vital information.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Police collected information from families for comparison with the remains, including DNA samples, medical records and details of the belongings they took on their trips.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dr Walsh said it had helped knowing exactly who they were trying to identify — unlike a tsunami where it could be unclear who was killed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the operation was complicated by the catastrophic nature of the incident and the delay in accessing and retrieving all the remains.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the national disaster victim identification commander for the AFP, Dr Walsh has responded to several mass fatalities including the 2009 Victorian bushfires, the Christmas Island <b>refugee boat</b> tragedies and the New Zealand earthquake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he said this was the most difficult operation he had been involved in because of the security issues — victims and plane wreckage were strewn in an active war zone in eastern Ukraine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It was very confronting for the teams there,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They’d move from Government-held areas to separatist-held areas and the priority of those military commanders overrode any plans the search teams had.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It was very volatile and they were close to the fighting. One of our team said he quickly learnt the important difference between incoming and outgoing mortar fire.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dr Walsh said the AFP still had officers in Ukraine and the Netherlands working on the criminal investigation and there were still Australian personnel at the military base identifying victims.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Investigators examined the wreck of the passenger jet in the Netherlands after it was retrieved from Ukraine, building evidence to prosecute those responsible for the missile attack.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s important to note that the AFP is still involved ... and it remains a significant priority for us,” Dr Walsh said.</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We work essentially for the families of those affected by the incident.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dr Simon Walsh</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Natasha Robinson Paige Taylor, Additional reporting: Margot Kelly   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s taken over a decade, but Slobodan Milosevic’s associate is facing justice</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I am not afraid of any questions. But I believe answers can be dangerous.” The musings of Dragan Vasiljkovic could not have been more prophetic. On an overcast Perth day in early September, 2005, the paramilitary commander known as Captain Dragan chose the dangerous path.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From the beginning, the self-styled military man seemed to understand that the truth would bring him undone.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We found him standing by a small golf shop at the rear of a Serbian community centre in working-class Maddington, his profile backlit by the muted late afternoon light. Silver-haired and willowy, then aged 51, the man who called himself Daniel Snedden was initially incognito.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Snedden, as he was then known to those oblivious to his past, had answered the phone when The Australian called the Serbian centre earlier that day, responding cagily when asked if he knew the notorious Captain Dragan. “I play golf with Captain Dragan,” Snedden told reporter Paige Taylor. Snedden couldn’t resist putting in a good word for his alter-ego: “He’s a really nice guy.” Acting on a tip-off that the notorious Captain Dragan had returned to Australia from his home city of Belgrade, The Australian’s Natasha Robinson had been tracking Vasiljkovic. Several things were known about the man: he sailed yachts; he played golf, and he was touring around the country, being received from coast to coast within the Serbian diaspora as a war hero, raising money for his war victims’ charity. One week, he was in Melbourne, the next Sydney, and then our sources began guiding us to Perth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the end, the man who has never kept a low profile was not hard to find. Neither was he skilful at keeping his identity under wraps. After Taylor pieced together our clues and put in a call to the Maddington Serbian centre — which had a golf range handily attached — the man who answered the phone aroused suspicions. After a few minutes listening to the man who said he was not Vasiljkovic, an increasingly sceptical Taylor took a punt. “You are Captain Dragan, aren’t you?” she said. “Yes,” came the reply.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Semi-industrial Maddington is not where you might expect to find a man who had sailed the world’s oceans on his self-built yacht, picking up travellers in every port. But from his early days in a Belgrade orphanage, safety was found in numbers for Dragan Vasiljkovic. “I’m not a loner,” he said in a self-penned profile published in 1996. “I was never alone on the <b>boat</b>. And the feeling when you’re on the ocean is one of complete independence. Around my <b>boat</b>, everything is mine, for the oceans don’t belong to anybody.” In the late afternoon of September 7, when Taylor followed up on the telephone call and turned up in Maddington, Dragan was alone. But as he made coffee in the back of the cavernous community centre, chairs stacked around the edges of its hall, his identities were numerous and switching by the minute. There were many Captain Dragans that September afternoon: charming Dragan, laughing Dragan, proud Dragan and angry Dragan, sometimes all at once. At first Vasiljkovic was wary; adamant that he did not want the past dragged up. But ego was his downfall as he was drawn out about his talents and his new life as a golf instructor. He was teaching golf to children and using his status as a war hero for good, he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former London paparazzo Andy Tyndall sat and listened with his camera gear by his side, waiting for the moment when Vasiljkovic might grow comfortable enough to pose with his clubs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a draft proof of evidence for the defamation case that Vasiljkovic later launched — and lost — against The Australian, Tyndall recalled: “After we chatted for a while, Snedden opened up. He seemed to be very big-headed and confident, and it didn’t take much to get him talking about what a hero he thought he was.” When Vasiljkovic finally agreed to talk on the record and on tape, he wanted it known that his success as a military commander made him the most popular man in Serbia and that politicians including Slobodan Milosevic were threatened by it. He told how he essentially turned a rabble into a successful fighting unit whose fame quickly spread within a month, taking the city of Glina with just 21 men.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“When I showed up I just simply said, ‘Listen I think we can at least cut down on those casualties. I think we should run a big training and just do it, you know.’ And after three weeks they just looked different.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They looked different, they behaved different, there were no casualties. They started believing in something. It was not a sort of an organised army, it was just civilians that took up arms.” Vasiljkovic wanted The Australian to know he took part in the war almost incidentally, while he was on his way to Africa to run a charter flight business. He said the Serbian press ranked him the country’s most popular person while he was in the mountains with his men, and Milosevic was threatened by this. He believed it led to him being removed as a military commander.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I had a little aeroplane and a beautiful yacht, you know, I had my life fully organised and so when all that happened it was just one thing led to another and I became all of a sudden the most popular person,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Taylor brought the interview back around to the subject of war crimes allegations against him, an angry Vasiljkovic said he was the victim of war propaganda. “The question should be: why, why is anyone allowed to make accusations without any evidence?” he snarled. “You got a victim?” “You kill people, sure,” he said. “But every casualty in the war — I accounted for.” Letting out a chuck­le, Vasiljkovic said: “I wrote reports on it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I won’t say I’m perfect, no, nobody’s perfect at killing people, but you know I’m sure I never killed a civilian, I’m sure I never killed a prisoner. I’m sure I never killed anybody that didn’t have to be killed.” The deadly assault at Glina in July 1991 was an early bloody chapter in the Balkans genocides. The Glina assault is among the war crimes tribunal’s three allegations against Vasiljkovic, who is accused by Croatian prosecutors of commanding troops who tortured and killed prisoners of war; commanding a deadly assault at Glina in 1991; and training paramilitary units that committed war crimes at Bruska near Benkovac in Croatia’s central Dalmatian hinterland in 1993.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He denies the allegations, which carry a maximum 20-year jail term if they proceed to formal charges and a conviction.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For a man who does not like to be alone, Vasiljkovic has already spent a lot of time in a jail cell. For almost 9½ years — aside from a nine-month stint of freedom in 2009 while a High Court case was pending — the 61-year-old has languished in a Sydney prison cell. Croatia’s extradition request came in January 2006, three months after The Australian’s expose was published. Since that time until as recently as May, Vasiljkovic had launched 13 Federal Court actions attempting to halt his extradition, and two High Court appeals of Full Federal Court decisions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Across the nation’s federal and commonwealth jurisdictions, opinions were not uniform on the complexities of Australia’s extradition laws.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At one point it looked as if Vasiljkovic had won his freedom, when the Full Federal Court ruled his extradition would be unjust. But in 2009 the High Court overturned the decision — and Vasiljkovic promptly fled from justice.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In March 2010, <span class="companylink">Australian Federal Police</span> agents who were stationed at the High Court in Canberra prepared to arrest Vasiljkovic as his March 30, 2010, appeal failed. The war crimes accused had sauntered into his trial on its first day and, after many months of freedom, appeared convinced he would witness the clearing of his good name. But perhaps he saw the writing on the wall. The case spilled over into a second day, and as the judgment was handed down on March 31, Vasiljkovic was nowhere to be seen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The AFP, which by now needed a new warrant for his arrest, couldn’t find its man. Knocks on the door of the addresses that Vasiljkovic had nominated as his home residence on court papers failed to secure the suspect, and for 43 days 102 AFP agents were forced to comb the NSW coast from Sydney to Coffs Harbour and beyond. At that time, The Australian was receiving tips that Vasiljkovic was preparing to sail a yacht to The Hague to claim <b>asylum</b>. It seemed outlandish, but we turned up at the Woolloomooloo marina nevertheless, armed with large colour-print photographs of Vasiljkovic, interrupting the bluebloods in their <b>boat</b> shoes, asking: “Have you seen this man?” It seemed too absurd to be real, but it turned out the tips were half-right. In May 2010, Dragan was apprehended by the AFP at a dry dock at Harwood slipyard, Clarence River, NSW north coast, fixing up a yacht that he planned to sail to Europe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It would be six years and countless failed court actions later that Dragan’s day of reckoning — it came on Wednesday when he was finally extradited — arrived. But it was not before a partial victory in one Federal Court case launched by Vasiljkovic’s most recent advocate, by far the most competent of his motley crew of lawyers that came and went as the years stacked up.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">American former military attorney Dan Mori almost halted the extradition for good. The case in November 2013 forced the federal government — which had badly erred in its handling of the case by engaging in discussions with Croatia over the possibility that Vasiljkovic might face allegations beyond the ones for which he was sought on the extradition request, and then denied Vasiljkovic access to those discussions — back to the drawing board. Following the 2013 case that Mori ran, the federal government had to consider the extradition request anew, delaying the case even further.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This week, when Vasiljkovic faces a judge in a specialised war crimes court at the Adriatic coastal town of Split — judges and prosecutors attached to the court have been trained to run state war crimes cases by those with ICTY expertise — it will be a quarter of a century since war broke out in the Balkans.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The war’s roots are complex and have their origins in the seismic European power shifts that preceded World War I, but there is a direct link between the hauling the henchmen of war before courts in a quest for truth and justice — in whoever’s favour the judgment falls — and the breaking of the cycles of violence that have characterised wars such as those in the Balkans and now in the Middle East.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Dragan strode in the historic old fortress town of Knin in the Dalmatian hinterland near the Bosnian border in early 1991 as ethnic and religious tensions reached boiling point, his connections with Milosevic’s secret police who sat at the apex of the power structure were already well-established.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was this secretive power structure that — following the establishment of the <span class="companylink">International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia</span> in 1993 — investigators were tasked with piecing together.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Experts from around the world who were based at The Hague during the period following the end of the Balkans war and during the early days of investigation of war crimes perpetrators had an exceedingly difficult task ahead of them. A team of between 40 and 50 investigators at The Hague at this time, known as Team 5, needed an insider. Vasiljkovic became their man.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">US-based attorney Dermot Groome was a senior trial attorney from the Office of the Prosecutor at the ICTY and a key figure in the team that investigated war crimes committed by Milosevic in Bosnia. Groome is the man who shoulders the main responsibility for the decision to call Vasiljkovic at Milosevic’s 2003 ICTY trial — an appearance that turned into a fiasco when Vasiljkovic turned hostile witness; the affair fuelling already-existing professional enmity between Groome and his superior, British barrister Geoffrey Nice QC, who headed the Milosevic prosecution team at The Hague.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Groome insists that members of his team came into the possession of two vitally important pieces of evidence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first was a videotape, known as the Kula tape, shot after the war in May 1997 that showed Milosevic and key Serbian figures of the state security service apparatus participating in a ceremony that marked the sixth anniversary of the paramilitary unit initially established by Vasiljkovic in 1991, the Kninjas or the Red Berets.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There was nobody who would come forward and authenticate the tape,” Groome says. “We probably looked at the tape hundreds if not thousands of times. We identified as many people as we could on the tape. And surely enough, one of the people that features prominently on the tape is Dragan Vasiljkovic.” If prosecutors were to be able to use the Kula tape as evidence, they needed an insider who would roll on his comrades.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Early on in the investigation, myself and senior investigator Bernard O’Donnell made the decision we needed to get insiders — people with intimate, direct knowledge of how the crimes were committed,” Groome, who has returned to the US and the university institute Penn State Law, tells Inquirer. Groome is speaking for the first time about the internal decisions of the team that prosecuted Milosevic — the prosecution in which Vasiljkovic became a key witness.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We began to come to the belief that the state security service of Serbia was directly involved in many of the crimes committed in Bosnia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This was a secret organisation, they operated clandestinely so it was a rather difficult challenge to investigate that body.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Nonetheless we did and we were able to identify people that eventually spoke to us.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“One of those people was Captain Dragan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Given that victims are generally too scared to testify, and the importance of placing these people at crime scenes, this became an absolutely important piece of evidence, not only for showing the places the Red Berets were but also for showing that Milosevic knew who they were and what they were doing,” Groome says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it wasn’t the only treasure trove of evidence that Vasiljkovic provided ICTY investigators. Back in Belgrade in 1993 after he had been kicked out of the inner circle in the SAO Krajina, Vasiljkovic established a charity for war wounded, widows, and children orphaned by the war.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Still regarded as a revered war hero despite his fall from the grace of Milosevic, Captain Dragan’s profile was still high and his fundraising capacities were so formidable that his charitable fund became the main source of war entitlements for thousands of Serbian families, in the total absence of any official state benefits.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The record-keeping was meticulous and lines of military reporting were documented in each application by an irregular soldier or his family for access to funds. “There were thousands and thousands of pages of documentation,” Groome tells Inquirer. “Milosevic was denying that there was anyone from Serbia in Bosnia. Here are all these reports that Captain Dragan — he is a businessman and a pretty good one at that — was compiling.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“And Captain Dragan agreed to give us all of the files of the Captain Dragan fund. By taking these thousands and thousands of pages, and we had some amazing criminal analysts, many from the region, they were able to paste together the organisational structure of the Red Beret troops and other troops.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“And it wasn’t just Red Berets who could apply for benefits from Captain Dragan’s fund. We were able to reconstruct the organisation in which Serbia sent their Serbs into Bosnia and in turn many of them, or some of them, were involved in criminal activity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Those were probably two of the top 10 pieces of evidence that we had — the Captain Dragan records, and the Kula video.” But the decision to call Vasiljkovic at Milosevic’s trial was highly controversial, no less with the man in charge of the team, Nice, who was furious over the move despite being in the position of having to formally sign off on it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We wasted the best of the evidence with the worst witness,” Nice tells Inquirer. “I bear responsibility for the decision to call Vasiljkovic, although the decision was made ostensibly by others effectively without reference to me.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“ I think he would have been better in the dock than as a witness.” In the dock is exactly where Vasiljkovic, this coming week, will be during Croatia’s most high-profile war crimes trial.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For those close to the accused war criminal, the past week has been a hammer blow. Steve Platter, a US-based filmmaker and close friend of Vasiljkovic, felt sick at the sight of news reports that showed his friend, wearing a bullet-proof vest, being escorted into black police vans in Zagreb late this week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Seeing pictures of my friend Daniel being escorted in handcuffs was very upsetting,” Platter tells Inquirer. “It is the final realisation that after a decade-long fight in Australia, the true fight is just beginning.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The surrender of Daniel was the culmination to a very sad decade of constant legal entanglement and loss, but the fight goes on, as does our enduring friendship and brotherhood.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I was with him in times of war, charity, relief, grief, growth, and imprisonment. My last conversation with him was this past Monday. We were discussing what would happen. He was most concerned that others may be facing extradition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He ended the conversation as he always did: ‘Kiss your wife, hug your grandkids, tell your family I said Hi, and I’ll call you every day or two if I’m still here; if not …’ Then we each hang up the phone.” Though the process of seeking justice may be painful, history tells us it is necessary.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Peter Morgan, director of the <span class="companylink">University of Sydney</span>’s European studies program, says the Vasiljkovic prosecution is a vital step in healing the deep geopolitical, ethnic and religious-based resentments that still play out today between Serbs, Croatians, Bosnians, Albanians and other ethnic groups in the region.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“These historical tensions had never resolved,” Morgan says. “They’d simply been controlled by force.“I think this prosecution is an extremely important step in achieving truth and justice — it’s a process that’s important everywhere where ethnic conflict has erupted into violence. We must open all of these violent histories up, come to terms with them, and if there are war crimes allegations, the perpetrators must be brought to justice, just as occurred in Germany following World War II. Otherwise it just goes on.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A STRUGGLING <b>refugee</b> couple came into Wendy Charles’ life by complete chance. But now she’s become their advocate, guardian angel and even their adopted mother.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Point Cook woman met Thusy Umesh Danushka and her husband, Umesh Danushka Coulton, in April 2013 — just months after they had arrived in Australia on a <b>boat</b> from Sri Lanka.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The pair had been forced to flee their home after receiving death threats for marrying outside their ethnic groups — Thusy, a Tamil, then aged 18, was in serious danger because she had wed 28-year-old Umesh, who is Sinhalese.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When the couple arrived in Australian waters, they were transferred to Christmas Island before landing in a community detention flat in Sunshine. It was here they met Ms Charles, whose friend, Monica, lived next door.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thusy gave birth to a son, Shalone, a few months later and it was then Ms Charles began helping the couple, who at the time were not allowed to work because they were deemed to be in detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There was a need to find pushers, high chairs, cots, nappies,” the 65-year-old said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Since then, I’ve continued the process of treating them like part of the family and making sure they have everything they need.” This need for help grew desperate when the young couple were granted bridging visas in May and told they had two weeks to vacate their fully furnished government flat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Charles helped them find a rental home and put out a call for donations of household items, food and clothing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Charles’ selfless efforts have seen her nominated for the Community Spirit Medal in the Pride of Australia awards.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Do you know a local legend?Nominate them at HERALDSUN.COM.AU/PRIDEOFAUSTRALIA@prideofoz</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">REFUGEES</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ACROSS THE SEAS: AUSTRALIA'S RESPONSE TO REFUGEES - A HISTORY. By Klaus Neumann. Black Inc. $34.99. Reviewer: RICHARD FERGUSON</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A peek into history puts our debate into context</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A ustralia's torrid relationship with refugees is something everyone has an opinion on and is a continuing headache for Canberra. Across the Seas: Australia's Response to Refugees is Klaus Neumann's attempt to untangle the <b>refugee</b> question. It seems to Neumann that it's all just a bit of history repeating. Debate requires the proper historical context to understand that <b>refugee</b> policy and attitudes haven't really changed much since Malcolm Fraser and the Vietnamese "<b>boat</b> people". This book covers 1901 to 1977 - the Tampa and Operation Sovereign Borders are just footnotes - in order to reflect on how little has actually changed. So, how to define a <b>refugee</b>? Neumann is very concise: "Somebody who has to seek refuge abroad because he is a political opponent of the regime in his home country; somebody who has to flee on account of being a member of a persecuted religious or ethnic minority; the resident of a crowded <b>refugee</b> camp somewhere in the developing world; or a passenger on a fishing <b>boat</b> that has been intercepted by the Australian navy." There was no <b>refugee</b> policy in 1901. The federal parliament rushed to institutionalise the White Australia Policy and there was no minister for immigration until 1945. It took two world wars and the Nazis to change attitudes - very slowly - towards refugees. Australia's failure with Jewish refugees after the rise of Hitler can be hard to stomach. Strict numerical restrictions were put in place by Attorney General Robert Menzies and then Jews suffered frequent internment when war hit. And, of course, a clear distinction between German Jews and their "inferior" Eastern cousins was made. Neumann's chronicle is overwhelmingly that we were willing to take refugees but only in our own interests. Australia did its best to water down the 1951 UN <b>Refugee</b> Convention (and hesitated to get on board anyhow) and our attitudes since have been dodgy at best. There's Arthur Calwell, the first immigration minister. Acomplex man, Calwell fought for Jewish refugees but denied Asian brides of Australian servicemen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Calwell improved our attitude to refugees? No, but he created a <b>refugee</b> policy in the first place. When Harold Holt took over from Menzies, he started to slowly tear down the White Australia policy. Neumann details the extraordinary struggle between a pragmatic Foreign Affairs Department desperate to save face abroad and an Immigration Department's obsession with a White Australia. But during that long</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Coalition reign, it is Russians fleeing tyranny and West Papuans looking for better lives who dominate the debate, not the <b>refugee</b> masses of today. <b>Refugee</b> policy as we know it comes from Whitlam and Fraser. Left-liberals will be downhearted at Whitlam's reluctance to assist refugees (as Neumann says, Whitlam was keen to cut immigration altogether). He debunks the old myth that Whitlam wanted to stop the South Vietnamese as potential Liberal supporters, but we do see a government unwilling to take refugees in the face of diplomatic engagement. And, of course, he only wanted refugees that were of any use. Yes, Fraser resettled the largest number of non-white immigrants and created the (mainly) humanitarian- focused <b>refugee</b> policy we know today. But after years of public support for the South Vietnamese refugees, the tide</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">turned when the boats came en masse and there was even talk of <b>boat</b> turn-backs in 1977. And who deplored the "<b>boat</b> people" the most? That right-wing reactionary, Bob Hawke. For all the changes, from Federation to Abbott's Australia, it's extraordinary how much things have stayed the same with the refugees. Neumann urges us "to try to learn to live with a complex and often uncomfortable problem". This book give us a sturdy historical context for a debate that continues to engulf Australia. Neumann demolishes old misconceptions and shows us there's nothing new when it comes to the <b>refugee</b> debate. He's sharp, brilliant, well informed. What we long for, though, is for him to deconstruct the whole "Stop the Boats" ballyhoo we still live with today.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | ghum : Human Rights/Civil Liberties | gcat : Political/General News | gcom : Society/Community | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020150710eb7b0003x</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020150710eb7b0002l" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Refugee</b> fears Taliban threat after data leak</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Nicole Hasham   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>556 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A009</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Refugee</b> fears Taliban threat after data leak</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Nicole Hasham</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nadir Sadiqi.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was threatened with beheading by the Taliban after immigration officials leaked his private details online, and now <b>asylum</b> seeker Nadir Sadiqi fears he will be sent home to certain death in Afghanistan. Mr Sadiqi was among 10,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers - about one third of those held in Australia at the time - whose identities were revealed in a massive data breach by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection in February last year. Their names, nationalities, arrival dates and other details were published on the department's website in a serious breach of privacy. It raised grave concerns that those who had fled dangerous situations were exposed to an even greater risk. Mr Sadiqi's worst fears were realised a few months later when he received a death threat on <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> from a group purporting to be the Taliban. He believes they tracked him down using the leaked details. Mr Sadiqi, a Hazara who lives in Brisbane, said the Taliban wrote: "You've gone to an infidel country so your killing is obligatory. As soon as you come back to Afghanistan you will be beheaded". Frightened, he deleted the message and closed his <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> account. Mr Sadiqi, 31, fled Afghanistan after his family suffered religious persecution by the Taliban. He says he was bashed after refusing to join the group's fight against Western troops, including Australia. Years earlier his father was murdered and his two brothers were kidnapped, and presumably killed. He fled to Pakistan with his wife, children and other family members. Although Hazaras also face persecution in Pakistan, financial and other reasons meant his family was forced to remain there as he made the perilous <b>boat</b></p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">journey to Australia. He arrived in 2010. Mr Sadiqi has sought <b>asylum</b> and is on a bridging visa which expires on August 6. In a letter from immigration officials sighted by <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span>, he was told the visa allowed him to stay in the community "while you make arrangements to depart Australia". However the government is still assessing the extent to which Mr Sadiqi and other <b>asylum</b> seekers were affected by the data breach, and <b>refugee</b> advocates have questioned why he has apparently been ordered to leave before that process is complete. Mr Sadiqi is suffering depression and said he cannot sleep at night. "I feel terrible and I'm very scared. I'm afraid the government will take me in the middle of the night and send me back to Afghanistan. As soon as I arrive in Kabul I will get killed." He recorded a video message for Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, pleading to be allowed to stay, which has been provided to <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span>. A <span class="companylink">change.org</span> petition calling for him to be granted <b>asylum</b> had garnered 20,000 names at the time of online publication. Despite Mr Sadiqi apparently being slated to leave Australia next month, a Department of Immigration and Border Protection spokesman said his assessment relating to the data breach was "under active consideration". "Australia does not return <b>asylum</b> seekers to their countries of origin until all claims for protection have been fully considered," he said. The spokesman said the department improved its information management after the data breach.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RF</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>69240564</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gterr : Acts of Terror | gcat : Political/General News | gcns : National Security | gcrim : Crime/Courts | gpir : Politics/International Relations | grisk : Risk News | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>afgh : Afghanistan | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | casiaz : Central Asia | dvpcoz : Developing Economies</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020150710eb7b0002l</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020150710eb7b0001n" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Jokowi's honeymoon over as Indonesians grow disillusioned</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1390 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>B004</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jokowi's honeymoon over as Indonesians grow disillusioned</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Without a strong political base the president needs popular support, but that is waning both at home and abroad, writes CATRIONA CROFT-CUSWORTH.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Joko Widodo is struggling to control the Indonesian presidency. Photo: AP</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">T his time last year, Joko Widodo's supporters took to the streets to celebrate his victory in Indonesia's presidential election. He was hailed as the people's president, his win in the polls seen to signal a new chapter for Indonesian democracy. The former furniture salesman and small-town mayor, who insisted on being called by his nickname, "Jokowi", represented a break from the stronghold of elite and military circles over the nation's highest position of power. One year on, and the president has developed a very different reputation, both at home in Indonesia and internationally. Social media users in the world's most active Twitter-using country have in recent weeks adopted the trending hashtag #SudahlahJokowi (Enough already, Jokowi) to express their disillusionment. Relations with Australia have hit a new low, with an ambassador being recalled from Indonesia for the first time. Meanwhile, the Australian public's feelings toward Indonesia have cooled to the lowest point in eight years, according to the latest <span class="companylink">Lowy Institute</span> Poll. Jokowi's honeymoon period is well and truly over. As he was officially inaugurated in October last year, the president is now only nine months in to a five-year term. He may have outstripped elite and military figures during election season, but Jokowi is</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">now struggling to take control of the presidency without the full support of his party and coalition. His attempts to regain the people's support, such as by showing decisiveness on pursuing the death penalty for drug smugglers, have cost the president credibility among human rights supporters and international observers. So what has gone wrong for Jokowi since this time last year? And what will it mean for the future of Indonesia, and for Australia- Indonesia relations? Domestically, Jokowi's biggest challenge is getting out from under the thumb of Megawati Sukarnoputri, his party leader. The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), founded by Megawati, is the political machine that picked out Jokowi as the popular mayor of his hometown in Central Java and supported his rise to become governor of the capital - and then president of the country. At a party congress in Bali in April, Megawati gave a speech that indirectly reminded Jokowi of his origins, and advised that he toe the party line. Jokowi himself was not invited to speak at the congress. The Indonesian public is well aware of this dynamic. As the incoming president, Jokowi made a show of filling his cabinet based on the new ministers' credentials, rather than their political affiliations - though a few appointments were still</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">criticised as being politically motivated, including the appointment of Megawati's daughter Puan Maharani as minister for human resource development and cultural affairs. Meanwhile, when it came to nominating a new national police chief in January, Jokowi chose Budi Gunawan, a close friend of Megawati. The <span class="companylink">Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) </span>advised against the appointment due to outstanding graft allegations while the parliament, and the president's party, backed it. Jokowi was caught between toeing the party line and siding with the KPK, backed by the volunteer support base that carried his presidential campaign. Instead, Jokowi took a back seat as the drama unfolded. The police retaliated against the KPK by levelling charges against its top investigators. The country's most trusted anti- corruption body looked on the brink of collapse. The military moved to secure the KPK, reigniting tension between the police and the armed forces. Finally, Jokowi dropped Gunawan's nomination for police chief - only to see him quietly inaugurated as deputy police chief in April. By the end of January, a poll by the Indonesia Survey Circle (LSI) showed that 54 per cent of respondents were dissatisfied with Jokowi's performance as president. A poll by Puspol Indonesia in February</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">showed dissatisfaction as high as 74.6 per cent. No direct link can be made between Jokowi's weakening position and his decision to go ahead with the execution of death-row drug smugglers in January and in April. The president had already signed the execution papers last December, when he was still enjoying relatively high popularity ratings. However, the timing of the executions does suggest a political motivation to show his strength and decisiveness as a leader, and to recover public support. Haris Azhar, co-ordinator of the non-governmental Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS), says that anti- death penalty activists in Indonesia are fighting an uphill battle. "For me, it's very clear that he [Jokowi] does not care and does not understand human rights," he said via email in February. Capital punishment has strong mainstream support in Indonesia. The decision by former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to grant clemency to Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby was highly unpopular. By enforcing the death penalty for drug smugglers, and particularly for foreign drug smugglers, it is likely that Jokowi sought to distinguish himself from his predecessor and show his commitment to firm and fair law enforcement. Unfortunately for Jokowi, this</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">attempt to appeal for public support lost him a great deal of international support. United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon expressed regret over the executions, and urged a return to the moratorium introduced by Yudhoyono. Brazil and the Netherlands both withdrew ambassadors following the first round of executions in January. France and the Philippines objected to their citizens' scheduled executions in April, which did not eventuate due to ongoing investigations and appeals. In response to the executions of Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran in April, Australia for the first time withdrew</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">its ambassador from Jakarta, the country's biggest overseas diplomatic post. These developments signal a very different Australia-Indonesia relationship under Jokowi to the one experienced for 10 years under Yudhoyono. While all sides of Australian politics agree on the importance of a strong relationship with Indonesia, and in fact argue over which side is doing a better job of maintaining the relationship, the same cannot be said of the various factions in Indonesian politics. Despite some rocky moments with Australia during his term, Yudhoyono was an outward-looking statesman with a sincere interest in developing stronger ties with Australia. By contrast, Jokowi is inward-looking and reluctant to participate in international affairs. "Jokowi is not particularly interested in Australia," says Ken Ward, a former government Indonesia analyst, who is due to launch a book this month on the Australia-Indonesia relationship. "He's not hostile towards Australia, but he does appear indifferent." In a telephone interview, Ward pointed out that in public speeches Jokowi tended to mention an ambition for Indonesia to be seen as a world power on par with China and the United States. A role for Australia as a powerful regional neighbour did not feature, Ward said. On Australia's part, a hardline</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">approach to <b>asylum</b> seekers and frequent diplomatic gaffes have been harmful. Lasting damage was done by Prime Minister Tony Abbott's comments linking Australia's contribution to the 2004 Aceh tsunami recovery efforts and the government's request for clemency for Chan and Sukumaran. The implication of a diplomatic debt seen as equating the lives of 130,000 Acehnese and two Australians sparked public outrage. Australia's refusal to resettle Rohingya refugees has also had a poor reception in Indonesia, as the country that took the lead in south- east Asia for handling the <b>boat</b> crisis in May. An aggressive border protection policy by Australia continues to rankle Indonesia, particularly in relation to border incursions into Indonesian waters and allegations of bribery by Australian authorities for people- smugglers to return to Indonesia. It's early stages yet for Jokowi to forge stronger ties with Australia and fulfill domestic expectations of strengthening Indonesia's democratic institutions and improving the country's human rights record. However, the president's performance in the first year since he was elected shows that the bulk of this work still lies ahead. Catriona Croft-Cusworth is a Jakarta- based correspondent for the Lowy Interpreter.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RF</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>69228924</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gvote1 : National/Presidential Elections | gvote : Elections | gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>indon : Indonesia | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020150710eb7b0001n</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SMHH000020150709eb7a00055" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion - Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>We're lumped with politicians who fail to persuade us</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Waleed Aly - Waleed Aly is a Fairfax Media columnist and lectures in politics at Monash University.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1077 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">About the same time Barnaby Joyce was not appearing on Q&A, Australians were largely not digesting an opinion poll from that morning that made diabolical reading. Most simply, it was diabolical for our major political leaders, both of whom are plumbing historic depths of unpopularity and disapproval.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More broadly, though, this whole snapshot is diabolical for the very idea of Australian political culture. Our disillusionment with politics is now complete. It is real. It is not mere nostalgia for a better time that never existed. It is a kind of socialised disgust at the cynical offering with which voters are now stuck. Joyce's forced boycott (and now, Malcolm Turnbull's) partly explains this nadir.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not because democracy cannot function without Q&A, or even that Q&A cannot function without the Coalition. But because a cabinet boycott of this kind symbolises the state of civil debate in this country; a debate now so thoroughly decomposed it barely resembles its origins as the central pillar of democracy. This saga stands as an emblem for the way in which we do public discourse.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both major parties contribute to this mess, although in opposite ways. The Coalition pursues niche convictions that have little to do with public sentiment; Labor pursues public sentiment but with little conviction. What neither do is engage us on contentious matters of importance, and mount a coherent, sustained argument. They will try to outrage us - preferably directing that rage towards their foes. They will try to assuage us. But they almost never try to persuade us.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To be sure, each party has its populist terrain, on which it naturally embodies public instincts. The Coalition has national security and boats. Labor has anything that can be dubbed "fairness" and (if the Coalition dares raise it) industrial relations. But so ingrained are our uninspiring habits that even on these issues there is nothing approximating leadership.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor's best moments arrive when the Coalition steps on a landmine and offends the electorate. From here, Labor simply amplifies the damage. It does not start these conversations and take the country with it. It waits for the country to declare its outrage, then rides it. So it was with the Abbott government's disastrous first budget, as it was with WorkChoices before it. Where other issues fall its way - like say climate change or even same-sex marriage - it simply mangles the argument.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is Labor - through Kevin Rudd's ETS cowardice and Julia Gillard's "citizens' assembly" policy void, which led her ultimately to break her promise by negotiating a carbon tax she had specifically ruled out - that has made a serious climate change policy politically impossible. And when it does mount a visionary idea - like, say, Gonski - it fails to explain why these ideas are more important than the debt they will impose, leaving them susceptible to a fiscal dismantling.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition, meanwhile, finds itself unable to resist overdoing its advantages. Tony Abbott's recently belligerent focus on national security has lacked any of John Howard's subtlety, and delivered no discernible benefit in the polls. He's pursued this so wildly that his most high-profile cabinet colleague - and greatest internal threat as leader - now feels comfortable building his capital by being more measured on terrorism. Abbott may be the first leader to have found a way to exhaust the political advantages of national security, which is no piffling achievement. The same is probably not quite true of <b>asylum</b> seeker policy, but the problem with boats is that once they stop coming, Australians stop fearing them, meaning their political bang has a natural limit. Unless, of course, the issue can be somehow revived.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That thought petrifies Labor, which is precisely why Bill Shorten will be dreading its upcoming national conference, where Labor's factions will tear at each other's throats over whether or not to support Abbott's policy of turning back boats. A significant portion of the party would find this scandalous, but Shorten knows that if he fails to adopt it, the Coalition will hammer its political advantage mercilessly. And that's why he's manoeuvring to capitulate. It's a study of how Labor behaves on issues where public sentiment runs against it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Labor struggles to press home a popular argument, it has long since abandoned hope of mounting an unpopular one - which is why it spent most of its last term pretending it could deliver a surplus. And right now, any kind of restraint on <b>asylum</b> seeker policy is about as unpopular as it gets.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten would need to counter the torrent of anti-<b>boat</b> people hysteria that has gripped the country since Paul Keating. That's unlikely, so we can expect Labor to acquiesce. And it is here that Labor's differences with the Coalition are sharpest. Faced with its own idiosyncrasies, the Coalition chooses neither to acquiesce, nor to persuade, but rather to bludgeon. We're seeing that from some of the Coalition's hardiest warriors on same-sex marriage and renewable energy, for example. And we're certainly seeing that with Q&A. Abbott is playing to a crowd - both within and without his party room - whose incandescent hatred of the ABC long predates Zaky Mallah's infamy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The trouble is that crowd is very small. The ABC remains vastly more popular than any government, and the broader electorate has no interest in seeing a Prime Minister treat it like some enemy of the state. Abbott's running against public sympathies here, on an issue with almost no mainstream resonance. He's doing it with all the vigour Labor doesn't, and none of the touch someone like Howard did.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These are our times. Labor refuses to prosecute a difficult argument. The Coalition cannot prosecute one without finding an enemy to prosecute along with it. But no one is inviting us into a civil exchange. Perhaps with our instant online outrage and shallowing media cycle we're not the best guests. Sure, I'll accept that. But politicians aren't merely self-interested combatants. They're custodians of our political culture. And on that score there's a problem because it's never been easier to win politically by destroying politics.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SMHH000020150709eb7a00055</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-NEHR000020150711eb7a0001h" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>news</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Welcome to 'New Jungle'</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>RORY MULHOLLAND   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>836 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Newcastle Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NEHR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE Ethiopian Orthodox church stands among the sand dunes a couple of hundred yards from the road leading to the ferry terminal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It has a gaping hole in one wall and its floor is strewn with planks and debris. But its congregation are immensely proud of the shrine to the Virgin Mary that they are building from bits of wood scavenged from the wasteland they now call their home.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They have fixed a cross at each end of the roof, and a bell to announce prayers on a post outside.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I come here every day to pray," said Thomas who, like hundreds of his Ethiopian compatriots, took a long and tortuous route to get here, in the hope of sneaking on to a truck or train to cross the Channel to England.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Huts with roofs made of black plastic and tents stretch as far as the eye can see in all directions from the rickety church. This is what is known as the "New Jungle", taking its name from an earlier camp notorious for its poverty.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A town in all but name, with an estimated 3000 residents, the "New Jungle" is the new home of the throngs of people who have flocked from across the world to Calais to try to reach Britain. Most were forced to move here by police, as they closed down squats scattered around the town.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a few weeks, an area of sand dunes covering several square miles, including a former rubbish dump, has turned into a village that is half <b>refugee</b> camp, half slum. It houses makeshift mosques, shops that sell food, drink, cigarettes and phone cards.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Its Sudanese, Eritrean, Syrian and various other residents live in conditions that aid workers describe as worse than those of <b>refugee</b> camps in the world's trouble spots. But living conditions are not the migrants' main concern. What they want is to leave as soon as they can and get to the UK.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sitting on a stool outside a home-built shop, Samad Mousavi, from Kabul, described how on Thursday he had walked for an hour to get to the terminal to try to break in and board a train. He points to a rip in his sweatshirt from where he tried to climb the fence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A former translator for the American military, the 23-year-old said he had to leave Afghanistan after he was captured by the Taliban. It was eight months before he managed to escape.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His seven-month journey to Calais began with a flight to Istanbul, then a three-month stint in a Turkish detention centre, a <b>boat</b> trip to a Greek island, then overland through Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary, Germany and Belgium. He plans to claim <b>asylum</b> in Britain. As he spoke, migrants streamed back from a nearby "day centre" set up by the authorities which provides around 2000 hot meals a day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They carried their three-course dinners in polystyrene containers inside plastic bags, with many of them planning to eat only after the sun went down to respect the Ramadan fast.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A few were on bicycles, a much sought-after item since the migrants were moved from squats closer to town. "I sleep with my bike in my tent because otherwise it will be stolen," said Abdulrahim Hamed from Sudan, who says he was given his ageing ten-speed racer by a helpful local woman. One enterprising man has set up a bicycle repair shop in a narrow dirt track that runs between the shacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Opposite is one of the many mosques in the New Jungle. They are, like the huts that house the migrants, no more than tarpaulins or plastic sheets propped up with branches from trees or planks, with an Islamic crescent placed on top. A little further along the track, two German women were helping migrants cook a meal over an open fire. They were students on the latest of several trips to bring food and clothing to people in the camp.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the other end of the New Jungle, a pair of smiling Eritrean girls strolled past the mobile health clinic set up this week in white tents by the Medecins du Monde aid group. Earlier this year, officials went through the camp to inform Eritreans that, due to the dictatorial nature of the state they left, they have an automatic right to <b>asylum</b> in France. Some took up the offer but many believe the UK is a better bet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The clinic was erected last week when several aid groups got together and sent in an unprecedented aid convoy of food, hygiene kits and jerrycans, saying that their action was of the type "usually reserved for situations of war or catastrophe".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The living conditions of these people in the new 'authorised jungle' are absolutely unheard of in Europe, and do not even respect the norms set by the United Nations, the agencies said in a joint statement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Sunday <span class="companylink">Telegraph</span>, London</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Boat</b> turn-backs dividing Labor</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Primrose Riordan   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>398 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor's immigration spokesman Richard Marles has refused to confirm whether his party will come into line with the coalition on <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> turn-backs, after he was asked about it four times.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Marles is set to take a policy on the issue to the Labor party national conference in Melbourne in less than three weeks' time.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The questions follow statements by Labor frontbencher Joel Fitzgibbon who said in late June he believed turn-backs were an important "tool" that would be part of future Labor policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"One of those tools currently is <b>boat</b> turn-backs. Personally I believe turn-backs will remain part of Labor policy," he said, sentiments Labor leader Bill Shorten then declined to rule out, signalling a possible policy shift on the issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Appearing on the ABC's Q&A program on Monday night, Mr Marles refused to be drawn when questioned directly about the issue, instead repeating in less clear language that the "journey" to Australia would not be "reopened" for people smugglers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"A future Labor government will not reopen the journey between Java and Christmas Island," he responded.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said he retained concerns about turn-back after refusing to say whether he would take a policy supporting turn-backs to the national conference another three times.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Marles said he did not want to pre-empt decisions made at the conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said the Labor party had in the past supported <b>boat</b> turn-backs, and any government which kept the boats coming would be "condemned by history".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The lead-up the national conference has seen some argy-bargy between Labor left and right factions over turn-backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">West Australian MP Melissa Parke said: "the fact is that turning boats around and refusing to countenance what happens next is an abrogation of our duty to save lives imperilled at sea."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor backbencher Terri Butler, of the party's left faction, said any introduction of turn-backs into Labor policy would have to overcome the concerns of safety, meeting the nation's international obligations and maintaining a good relationship with Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Marles also faced a grilling from doctors in the audience, about Labor backing the Border Force Act.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I do actually think the doctors have it wrong here," Mr Marles said, insisting their was protection and process for doctors to report abuse.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Labor’s Left ‘floundering’ but <b>asylum</b> turnbacks an option</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ROSIE LEWIS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>475 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A key Labor left-faction negotiator on <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy says it is “hypothetically conceivable” the ALP could adopt a <b>boat</b> turnbacks policy with a few “significant caveats”, amid claims the faction is “floundering” on its <b>refugee</b> position.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor backbencher Terri Butler, who has been appointed to a new six-person committee to negotiate the Left’s <b>asylum</b>-­seeker stance in the lead-up to this month’s national conference, told The Australian there were three measures needed for turnbacks to gain her support.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I wouldn’t want to see turnbacks if it was unsafe, against international law or actively damaged Australia’s relationship with Indonesia, one of our most important neighbours,” Ms Butler said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But if those boxes were ticked, Ms Butler said a turnbacks policy could be “hypothetically conceivable”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Queensland MP is overseas and did not attend the Left’s meeting in Sydney over the weekend, where politicians, unionists and rank-and-file members failed to finalise a position on turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Opposition immigration spokesman Richard Marles has said voters will know Labor’s <b>refugee</b> policy at the conclusion of its national conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One member of the Left ­opposed to turnbacks, who declined to be named, said they had hoped there would be a resolution. “Those who are timid (against turnbacks) have just got to get their act together — they’re floundering,” the member said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They don’t know exactly how they want to amend (the draft platform); they didn’t come with any specific counterproposal and it’s this close to national conference.” A split over turnbacks has deepened in recent weeks after Joel Fitzgibbon, a senior figure in the NSW Right, said he expected Labor would take the policy and a suite of immigration measures to the next poll.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Members of Labor’s Left have rejected the push, raising the prospect of a showdown at ­national conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Butler said it was “entirely routine” for positions on controversial issues such as <b>boat</b> turnbacks to remain open before national conference and believed the party could work through it with goodwill.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She and Victorian MP Andrew Giles will be searching for common ground on <b>boat</b> turnbacks as they meet with Labor groups outside of the Left.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor frontbencher Penny Wong, also from the Left, said there were two key principles the opposition was “very clear about”. “We are committed to ­ensuring no more lives are lost at sea,” she told ABC radio.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We are also committed to ensuring that this nation adheres to our international legal obligations and that the human rights of <b>asylum</b>-seekers are respected. Those principles I am sure will guide the discussion at national conference on the final form of the policy.”The party’s draft platform on migration and refugees contains no mention of <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Sanjay Bhosale  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1266 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A021</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ALP must soften its stance on refugees ALP members are appealing to leader Bill Shorten to soften his approach on <b>asylum</b> seekers. Below, former ACT chief minister Jon Stanhope, left, and RAC volunteers Kris Sloane with granddaughter Sienna handing out leaflets at the EPIC Farmers Market on Saturday. Photos: ANDREW MEARES, ROHAN THOMSON</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A future Australian prime minister will have to apologise for the horrors of children in detention.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">COMMENT By Sanjay Bhosale</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">C anberrans eager to see a change in the ALP's policies on refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers will have a chance to have their say via an open letter to the ALP before the party's national conference in Melbourne from July 24-26. The open letter, to be published in The Canberra Times on Saturday, July 11, is among a number of initiatives organised before the conference by the Canberra <b>Refugee</b> Action Committee to demand a change in Labor's <b>refugee</b> policies that were adopted in the dying days of the Rudd government. The open letter, titled 'Refugees: Labor Must Change', will urge Labor to shift course on the issues of mandatory detention, offshore processing and towing back boats, after Opposition Leader Bill Shorten signalled that Labor was all but set to continue the Abbott government's harsh, cruel and unjust policies if it wins the next election. Many prominent Canberrans are among more than 100 people who have signed up to the initiative, including former chief minister Jon Stanhope, retired Bishop Pat Power, Associate Professor Matthew Zagor, of the ANU College of Law, Dr Sue Wareham OAM, Heather McGregor OAM, Rev Dr John Brown AM and Emeritus Professor Andrew Hopkins. Many of the signatories have expressed disgust, disappointment and despair at Labor's willingness to abandon its long-standing commitment to fairness, decency and generosity towards refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers for short-term electoral gain. The letter will urge delegates to the ALP conference to adopt a fair, humanitarian and rational platform that will bind a future Labor government on <b>asylum</b> seeker and <b>refugee</b> policy. Numerous reports have shown the current policies have irreparably harmed men, women and children held in detention. They have left Australia's international reputation as a responsible global citizen and a welcoming nation in tatters and encouraged mean, xenophobic and racist sentiments in our community. At the ALP national conference, Labor for Refugees will put forward amendments to the proposed ALP platform, calling for decent policies to be adopted once again - including the immediate closure of the detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru, the release of all children from detention (both offshore and on the mainland) and an end to mandatory and indefinite detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We urge all of those of conscience in the Labor Party to support these amendments. Labor claims to stand for a "fair go" - that its policies support the disadvantaged and the powerless. "This is a transparently false claim as long as the <b>refugee</b> policies it has adopted in practice remain," an extract from the draft letter reads. "Labor must change on refugees. If not at this conference - at which? If not at the next election - at which future one? If Labor cannot find the courage to support fairness now, why would we expect that it will ever do so," the letter asks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">RAC is also organising a public meeting on Wednesday, July 15, to highlight Labor's policies and foster informed community discussion on this issue. The meeting, with the theme, Refugees: Labor Must Change, will be held at the Woden Tradies Club (corner of Furzer and Launceston streets) from 6.30pm in the Stromlo Room. The speakers include Stanhope, Unions ACT secretary Alexander White and convener of NSW Labor for Refugees, Jenny Haines. As former administrator of the Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Stanhope witnessed firsthand the inhuman and degrading treatment of <b>asylum</b> seekers and refugees under the government's Operation Sovereign</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Borders. RAC is also planning a bus trip to Melbourne for interested Canberrans to join a rally outside the Melbourne Convention Centre, the venue of the ALP conference. The return trip costs $75, but participants have to make their own accommodation arrangements. Hundreds of refugees detained on Manus Island, Nauru and on the mainland continue to suffer untold mental agony and physical harm as a result of the government's stop the boats policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a further aggravation of the situation of <b>asylum</b> seekers and refugees, the Border Force Act, which came into effect on Wednesday, makes it a crime for whistleblowers and "entrusted persons" to speak publicly about conditions in the detention centres, punishable by two years in jail. There are genuine fears the law will muzzle doctors, nurses and other staff in detention centres</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">and further shield the ongoing abuse of the detainees from media and public scrutiny. The government claims its policies and the secrecy surrounding them are necessary to stop the "evil" trade of people smuggling. But there are other, much better approaches to dealing with <b>asylum</b> seekers and refugees. Indeed, Australia led the way in the Indochinese <b>refugee</b> crisis of the late 1970s and early '80s when tens of thousands of refugees were resettled here in a safe and orderly manner. Processing <b>refugee</b> applications in countries to which the refugees had fled - such as Malaysia and Thailand - enabled them to be brought to Australia without forcing them to risk further dangerous sea voyages. There was no system of mandatory detention and because of its compassionate approach, Australia was in a position to negotiate with other developed countries to resettle more refugees and with other countries in the region to make the process workable. The current government's policies may have reduced the number of <b>boat</b> arrivals, but at what cost? They will have reputational consequences for Australia for years, if not decades. Just as the government now apologises for the Aboriginal stolen generations and for the</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">abuse of children in government and religious institutions, a futureAustralian prime ministerwill have to apologise for the horrors of children in detention and the deliberate persecution of vulnerable people for electoral gain. There is one bright spot in this otherwise bleak picture: the ACT government's positive and principled approach to refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers. In late June, as part of <b>Refugee</b> Week celebrations, Multicultural Affairs Minister Yvette Berry declared the national capital a "<b>refugee</b> welcome zone". "Becoming a <b>refugee</b> welcome zone is a way to continue our proud tradition of supporting refugees and make a public commitment to welcome refugees into our community, uphold the human rights of refugees, demonstrate compassion for refugees, and enhance cultural and religious diversity in our community," Berry says. "It will also act to highlight and acknowledge the important work of local community groups and individuals that support refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers and raise awareness about the issues that affect refugees, to demonstrate support for refugees and to stand against racism and discrimination, to pursue a more active role in advocating for refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers, and a more co-ordinated approach to support <b>refugee</b> settlement. "As a delegate to the AustralianLabor Party's national conference this year I look forward to advocating for these values in our platform so that we can see a change at the federal level as well." Those interested in signing the open letter to the ALP or travelling to Melbourne for the ALP national conference can email mail@refugeeaction.org. More details on the bus trip are at facebook.com/events/ 103452743330367. Sanjay Bhosale is a member of the Canberra <b>Refugee</b> Action Committee.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Cleaning up the stench of filthy lucre</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Peter Munro  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>932 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>42</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It doesn't take a dead fish at the door to know something stinks about political donations. The shonky system has bags of cash doled out in the back seat of a Bentley. Politicians lap up the largesse so readily that even property developers whinge about feeling "like a walking ATM".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> revelations that the Calabrian Mafia wormed its way into the pollies' pockets should come as no shock. What's galling is how little lucre it took for the Liberal Party to lift its skirts. A piddling $51,000 donation to its discredited NSW fundraising body, the Millennium Forum, was part of a successful campaign to stop the deportation of a violent Mafioso. The 'Ndrangheta, or Honoured Society, couldn't believe its luck. No need to leave a horse's head in someone's bed when hosting a fundraiser will do.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Crime boss Frank Madafferi - whose rap sheet includes extortion, stabbings, drugs and weapons offences - enjoyed Liberal and Labor figures successfully lobbying on his behalf to secure an Australian visa, despite police warnings. One Victorian Liberal MP treated Frank's brother Tony, a greengrocer and alleged Mafia Godfather, to lunch in the parliamentary dining room.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ease with which the Honoured Society ingratiated itself with Honourable Members is an indictment on Australia's political donations system. Other mobs must be lining up to fill the party coffers. Drug cartels could run chook raffles for their preferred political party. Bikie gangs could put on bake sales for the local MP. Death cults hosting fundraising dinners? Anything's possible, if the price is right.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nothing's beyond the pale, including almost $700,000 funnelled to the NSW Liberals before the 2011 state election from illegal donors. A money-bags Newcastle mayor and property developer bragged about dishing out envelopes containing $10,000 in cash to MPs. Another developer paid through the nose for a drab painting of a boatshed to disguise an illegal donation..</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The danger lies in what political donations buy. "The system is wide open to the kind of abuse by criminals and their representatives," says former Millennium Forum chairman Michael Yabsley. "The more common problem is where donors actually have an expectation of some kind of policy or other outcome in view of their donation."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Premier Mike Baird's move to require ministers to publish diaries of their external meetings won't stop lobbyists meeting in secret with bureaucrats, ministerial staff and parliamentary secretaries. Full disclosure of political donations is the only way to wash the stink from the system.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The cheap sale of principles for political gain is no partisan play. Just ask Labor. Dark omens suggest the party that once sought to scuttle Operation Sovereign Borders, is jumping aboard the Coalition's policy of turning back <b>asylum</b> seeker boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten slapped down suggestions last year that Labor might keep the policy. Now, Shortchanged has changed tack, saying he's determined to do what it takes to stop people smugglers. While they're at it, Labor's dropped its explicit objection to the refoulement of refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If you can't beat 'em join 'em. For his next trick, the Labor leader will repeat the phrase "on-water matters" without moving his lips. This is the same party, mind, that ended the Pacific Solution, only to later reinstate offshore processing on Manus Island and Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The only difference between the two big parties is the Liberals are cruel to refugees and boast about it, and Labor is cruel to refugees and feel ashamed about it," reckons refugees advocate Julian Burnside.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten quibbles while Abbott burns with terror about what lies beyond the water, whether it's <b>boat</b> people or a politically expedient apocalyptic death cult. "They're coming after us," he cries. <span class="companylink">Daesh</span> are coming for you and you ... and you there, quivering up the back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Politics has become a game of fear and loathing, and our People Skills PM has unleashed the dogs of war. He's like a miniature Pinscher tearing at a squeaky toy. While Shortchanged is about as formidable as a labradoodle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Churches willing to court celebrities invariably get more or less what they pray for. Hillsong has now brought poptart Justin Bieber into the fold, in the hope his tweeny army of Beliebers may follow. The alleged singer spoilt the gigachurch's annual cashfest by rocking up in a black Antichrist Superstar T-shirt, emblazoned with a three-headed Jesus and the words: "See No Truth, Hear No Truth, Speak No Truth."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ariana Grande was unavailable, presumably. Also making a surprise appearance by video at the religious conference was controversial US "macho" pastor Mark Driscoll, best known for describing women as "penis houses".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Never mind that Hillsong founder Pastor Brian Houston announced in June he had cancelled Driscoll's visit, saying it would "divert attention from the real purpose of Hillsong conference" - which is apparently courting donations and Canadian singers, whose crimes include vandalism, assault and his song Baby.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Heaven forbid anyone should divert attention from Houston's failure to report child sexual abuse carried out by his father Frank, who tried to pay-off one of his victims with an offer of $10,000. Houston has said the victim, who by that time was 36, did not want to go to then police. He also said it was a mistake on his part.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The stench of dirty money is rife in church and state. As penance, make them listen to Bieber's latest album - on repeat.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Whenever Labor chooses to put its oar in, it can be guaranteed to miss the <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b></span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Chris Kenny, Associate editor   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1318 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However it navigates this policy zone, the ALP cannot expect to be believed</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“So we beat on,” goes the oft-­quoted final line from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby that seems to have been adopted by the ALP as its border protection theme, “boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” Labor, urged on by activists and the political class, refuses to learn the lessons of our <b>asylum</b>-seeker horror story. So, while the boats have been stopped and most voters have breathed a sigh of relief, we have had another chapter in the parlour game that is Labor’s internal contortion on boats.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon kicked it off by saying Labor might want to embrace all available tools to prevent a restart in the people-smuggling trade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Now, one of those tools currently is <b>boat</b> turn-backs,” he said, “Personally, I believe turn-backs will remain part of Labor policy.” In a rational world this would have been an insignificant statement of the obvious. Fitzgibbon was merely urging his party to promise what it pledged in 2007 (but failed to implement) and now would amount only to continuing what the government already was doing successfully.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But, on this issue, the ratio of logic to emotional hyperbole is as skewed as an ABC Q&A audience. Fitzgibbon’s comments triggered days of self-fascinated blather.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Realists see an issue of border security, immigration integrity, 1200 lost lives, 800 boats, 52,000 unauthorised arrivals, overflowing detention centres and refugees who, without cash for people-smugglers, can’t access a full ­humanitarian quota.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But for the compassionistas — including much of the media — it is about political selfdom and identifying as caring rather than cruel, or tolerant rather than ruthless.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Monday, Labor’s immigra­tion spokesman Richard Marles tried to clarify his party’s stand.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Well, we retain concerns about turn-backs, it is a really difficult area,” Marles told the ABC’s Radio National, “and there are a range of views on this issue within the party and out there in the community, it’s complex, and I understand those different views, but at the end of the day we are concerned about the impact that turn-backs have in relation to the relationship with Indonesia, specifically when it comes to co-operating with Indonesia around the question of <b>asylum</b>-seekers’ vessels, and of course all of this happening under a shroud of secrecy.” Clear as mud.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then, as ever, Marles switched quickly from effective outcomes to presumed motives. “We are motivated by a position of compas­sion,” he said, “whereas for the gov­ernment that is really the central piece of an architecture which is really about putting a wall around Australia and turning Australia’s back on the world’s problems.” The world is, indeed, a cruel and dangerous place and Australia, relatively speaking, is nirvana.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But to commend itself for government, Labor needs to say what it proposes to do. Politicians can be forgiven, I suppose, for sometimes losing sight of policy outcomes in their pursuit of political success.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This, presumably, is one of the reasons we have journalists: to drive the debate back to what matters — you know, how to keep the borders secure, prevent people drowning and a trade in human desperation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So after Marles on RN’s Breakfast we heard from Michelle Grattan. “It’s a push that’s really a very pragmatic one,” she said, promisingly, of Labor’s talk about turn-backs. “People who think the policy should be changed feel that it would be electorally very, very difficult for Labor to say it wouldn’t turn back boats because this has been seen as one way of stopping the people-smuggling trade and the government would be easily able to say, ‘Well, you’ll just be opening the door again to it.’ ” So, when Grattan said “pragmatic” she didn’t mean a practical solution, she meant electorally pragmatic. Still, host Fran Kelly had a chance to steer her back to boats and people’s lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This whole issue of <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy has been a real thorn in the side for the Labor Party for well over a decade now,” she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I suppose “thorn in the side” is one way to characterise 1200 dead men, women and children and untold misery for tens of thousands of others.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“A fight within Labor over this is gift to the government electorally,” Kelly went on. “Even if Labor comes down on the side of turning back the boats, which it might think would sort of, you know, take the heat out of the issue, just the whole fight and discussion hurts Labor, doesn’t it, or benefits the government?” This was a typical and illuminating exchange.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For the political-media class — the group Robert Manne identified from the inside as the “permanent oppositional moral political community” — this issue is always seen through an ideological prism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Bill Shorten was asked if Labor would adopt a turn-back policy it proved too hard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Labor believes in a compassionate approach to refugees and a constructive approach to <b>asylum</b>-seekers,” he said. “Labor are the people who started regional resettlement to help break the people-smugglers’ model. I am determined to make sure that never again do the seaways between Java and Christmas Island become the opportunity for people-smugglers to put unsuspecting people into unsafe boats and drown at sea. That is our position.” He was asked again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Part of the dilemma with <b>boat</b> turn-back policy is that the government insists in shrouding it in secrecy. We want to see what the actual policies are and how they are actually working.” As best we can tell, this means that while the government’s policies seem to have worked, they are shrouded in so much secrecy that Labor will keep its policy secret.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Marles audaciously blamed Labor’s confusion on the government. “Now there are legitimate questions in relation to turn-backs and I’ve raised concerns about that,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The fact of the matter is the government has been hopeless in answering those.” By Wednesday on Radio National Grattan was starting to see signs Labor would change its policy. Perhaps she would be comforted by how this could prevent further human misery and trauma.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“A change is necessary if Labor is to be competitive at the election in the whole border protection issue,” she said, preoccupied with the misery and trauma of marginal Labor MPs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s lack of self-awareness is extraordinary.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It reminds me of the old joke about two friesians chewing their cuds in a paddock. One cow says, “It’s a bit of a worry, this mad cow disease.” “Doesn’t worry me,” says the other. “I’m a penguin.” The opposition needs to see its stand the way most of the public does. First: the present policies are working. And second: no matter what Labor says now, there is little chance it will be believed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ALP backflipped on offshore processing in the shadows of the 2013 election and now has seen the Coalition’s strong resolve, temporary protection visas and turn-backs solve the problem — to great humanitarian benefit — yet it refuses to endorse this prescription. Rather, it has criticised the government for everything from secrecy to megaphone diplomacy, from cruelty to cash payments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The media has been complicit, if not culpable, in the ALP’s folly and indulges the opposition’s introspective debate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After this month’s national conference, almost two years on from the election, Labor will say it has worked it out and then try to convince the public it can be trusted on border protection.Sorry, comrades; that <b>boat</b> has sailed.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>books</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>BOOKS Linda Morris   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>167 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE PLANNER | Our critics’ guide to the week</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FERGUS HUME</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab was Australia's first literary blockbuster. Here literary archaeologist Lucy Sussex gives the inaugural talk of the Fergus Hume Society. Wednesday, 12.30pm, Metcalfe Auditorium, State Library, Macquarie Street, city, free, bookings essential, 9273 1414.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>BOAT</b> PEOPLE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Klaus Neumann's new book Across the Seas places the hot-button issue of <b>asylum</b> seekers into a global context. Andrew Riemer is in conversation with the author. Wednesday, 6.30pm, Berkelouw Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt, $10, bookings essential, 9560 3200, berkelouw.com.au.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LITERARY POWER</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, taught proscribed Western classics in Iran in secret. Now living in the US, she expands on the themes of her latest book, Republic of Imagination to argue for literature's crucial place in democracies. Sunday, 2pm, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, from $28, sydneyopera house.com.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Other countries won't copy <b>boat</b> turn-backs: UN</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Lisa Cox   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>495 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The risk that other countries will copy Australia's hardline <b>asylum</b> seeker policies is low, the <span class="companylink">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees</span> has told an international gathering in Geneva.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Antonio Guterres, who last month condemned alleged payments by Australian officials to people smugglers, also said he found Australia's fixation on <b>boat</b> arrivals - which he called a "floating obsession" - difficult to understand.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Guterres made the remarks at a gathering of NGOs from 90 countries in response to a question from a <b>refugee</b> from South Sudan who had settled in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dor Akech Achiek asked whether there was a danger hardline <b>boat</b> turn-back policies would be implemented by other countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The debate about whether Australia could serve as a model for other nations was fuelled in Europe recently after the drowning of hundreds of <b>asylum</b> seekers fleeing Africa by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Guterres, who for many years has been a harsh critic of Australia's policies, said the risk of an "Australian contagion" existed, "but it is limited".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"And one of the reasons for this limitation is exactly the fact that one of the key spaces ... [in which] it has essentially been debated is in Europe," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"And in Europe we fortunately have court decisions that would not make the Australian policy legal."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Guterres went on to praise Australia's <b>refugee</b> resettlement program, saying the attitude to <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrived by <b>boat</b> was at odds with Australia's migration program and its response to <b>asylum</b> seekers arriving by air.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I always feel a little bit puzzled with the Australian policy because Australia is, as you know, a country that has a very open migration policy - I think about 180,000 migrants every year," Mr Guterres said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Australia has a very important resettlement program and I have to say that I was always amazed with the quality of the integration of refugees in Australia. I have been already to Melbourne and Sydney and Brisbane and seen the integration mechanisms: the civil society, the involvement of local authorities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"On the other hand, I believe it is still the case - and if it's not, you can correct me - if you come to the airport in Sydney and ask for <b>asylum</b> you are treated normally, but if a <b>boat</b> floats, then everything gets out of control." Mr Guterres said it was this difference that he did not understand and he hoped Australia would ultimately reverse its tough policies on boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"That kind of a global - not global, because many people in Australia do not feel so - but that large floating obsession, is for me something very difficult to understand.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I hope that this will not last forever."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Guterres had earlier told the conference the world was facing the largest number of displaced people since records began and the international humanitarian system was "broke but not broken".</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>unhcr : United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AGEE000020150702eb730003s</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-DAITEL0020150701eb720003m" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Lifestyle</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shorten is keeping himself in the dark</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>300 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While in government Labor knew so little about the people smuggling industry it assumed a more relaxed approach to border protection would not result in thousands of <b>asylum</b> seekers resuming their bids to enter Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor was very quickly disabused of this notion, but it still took several years for Labor to finally get the message. At last, in 2013, Labor actually took its first serious steps towards stopping the deadly influx of <b>asylum</b> seeker vessels.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now relegated to opposition, Labor has an opportunity to study the issue more deeply.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They have an excellent example to observe, too, in the form of the Abbott government’s successful <b>boat</b>-stopping strategies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet some within Labor do not appear especially observant on the whole <b>asylum</b> seeker issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday Labor leader Bill Shorten claimed he had “not seen” proposals to merge Customs with the Immigration Department, creating a new Australian Border Force, despite Labor supporting the merger mere weeks ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We haven’t seen the propositions around that,” Shorten said. “I will wait to see details before I start commenting.” Labor lost an enormous amount of support at the 2013 election due to the party’s failed border protection policies. It is stunning Shorten seems unaware of a key development in Australia’s border security.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even worse, Shorten rejected numerous opportunities to attend highly classified briefings by the commander of Operation Sovereign Borders General Angus Campbell, going as far back as early 2014.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This adds a worrying new element to what is already a worrying set of circumstances for Labor. The party’s leader seems to lack the motivation to fully explore the nature of the illegal immigration problem.By contrast, shadow immigration minister Richard Marles has received eight top-secret briefings. Information was available.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Cruel and costly: boats policy sinks to new nadir</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HUGH DE KRETSER - Hugh de Kretser is the executive director of the Human Rights Law Centre.  </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Successive governments have been vying to draft the harshest <b>refugee</b> policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Legislation rushed through the Federal Parliament last week represents a new nadir in the seemingly bottomless pit of radical measures employed by successive Australian governments to prevent <b>asylum</b> seekers arriving by <b>boat</b> from seeking Australia's protection.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The new laws aim to shore up the offshore processing regime against a High Court challenge brought by the Human Rights Law Centre in May on behalf of a group of vulnerable people, including children and a baby, who face imminent return to detention on Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor introduced mandatory detention of <b>asylum</b> seekers in the 1990s, initially with time limits on detention, which were later scrapped. The Howard government started processing <b>asylum</b> seekers in offshore detention centres in Nauru and Papua New Guinea. After a short suspension, the Gillard government reintroduced offshore processing and the Rudd government added a harsh twist - no <b>asylum</b> seeker found to be a <b>refugee</b> offshore would ever be settled in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Abbott government has taken our policies to an even harsher level: cutting the number of <b>refugee</b> places; turning boats away; dumping <b>asylum</b> seekers in lifeboats off the coast of Indonesia; and, most recently, reportedly paying people smugglers to return to Indonesia - in likely breach of Australian, Indonesian and international laws.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It has blanketed our <b>asylum</b>-seeker responses in intense secrecy that has made possible the detention of innocent people incommunicado on the high seas and their subsequent return to the authorities in the countries from which they fled.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It has stripped checks and balances from our mainland <b>refugee</b> assessment processes under new "fast-track assessments" - greatly increasing the likelihood we will return refugees to serious risks of persecution and death.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It has introduced flimsy <b>refugee</b>-screening assessments on the high seas to create the charade that we are complying with our international obligations not to return people to harm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the five years before the introduction of Operation Sovereign Borders, about 90 per cent of all <b>asylum</b> seekers arriving by <b>boat</b> were found to be refugees by our land-based assessment processes with proper court review. Yet, of 540 <b>asylum</b> seekers from 17 boats turned back at sea over the past 18 months, only two people were found to have potential <b>refugee</b> claims and all bar one person were sent back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And now, midway through a High Court case that argues that the government lacks the power to run and fund offshore detention centres, the government has rushed new legislation through Parliament that explicitly seeks to grant itself the extraordinary power to lock people up in the territory of a foreign country. The legislation also seeks to retrospectively legalise the government's actions offshore since August 2012.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What all of these measures have in common is an attempt to avoid the fundamental obligation at the heart of the <b>Refugee</b> Convention - to protect people fleeing persecution - which necessarily involves fairly and properly assessing people's <b>refugee</b> claims.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our Prime Minister claims success. For him, success is measured by doing "whatever it takes" to stop <b>asylum</b> seekers attempting to seek Australia's protection by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, viewed from any decent perspective, these policies are an abject failure. They have not stopped the persecution. They have inflicted tremendous cruelty at a cost of billions in taxpayer dollars. And they have shifted the obligation to protect refugees on to other countries less capable of supporting them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">During 2014, Australia protected just 0.43 per cent of the refugees recognised, registered or resettled globally - placing us 43rd in the world relative to GDP.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For those of us appalled by this situation, it would be easy to despair. Yet, despair is the opposite of what is needed. What we need is leadership to prosecute an alternative policy, a policy that provides people fleeing persecution with safe pathways to protection. One that provides better options than the terrible choice of risking your life by staying in your conflict-riddled country or risking your life on a <b>boat</b> journey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Success with an alternative approach would not be easy. However, it is within our reach - particularly considering the enormous political, financial and diplomatic resources that could be redirected away from our current harmful approach.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Four measures Australia could immediately adopt are:</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ Working meaningfully with countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia to improve conditions and legal protections for <b>asylum</b> seekers there.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ Redirecting some of the billions of dollars we spend on deterrence measures to process and support <b>asylum</b> seekers in other countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ Increasing the number of refugees we take from the United Nations resettlement pool.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ Urging other nations with capacity to do so to follow our lead.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The way Australia treats <b>asylum</b> seekers shows a stunning contempt for human rights and basic human decency.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is not the mark of great and fair nation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Out of the abyss of our current <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy, there is different approach available to us.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Jakarta ties at an ‘all-time high’</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JOE KELLY   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has dismissed claims from her former Indonesian counterpart, Marty Natalegawa, that the relationship is at a “critical juncture” and she has insisted co-operation is at an “all-time high”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The deputy Liberal leader yesterday reminded Indonesia it was a victim of the people-smuggling trade and that Australian <b>boat</b> turnbacks were helping to reduce the <b>asylum</b>-seeker burden for ­Jakarta.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The comments amount to a rejection of concerns aired by Dr Natalegawa about the contentious policy in Canberra this week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said Australia and Indonesia were “drawing down on the trust bank” and suggested the people-smuggling issue was becoming an obstacle to a deeper relationship.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Ms Bishop offered a different assessment. She said she was in constant text-message contact with Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and that Australian border protection policies were working to benefit both ­nations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The level of co-operation ­between Australia and Indonesia on people-smuggling, on human trafficking, on drug trafficking, on counter-terrorism, is at an all-time high,” she told Sky News.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We’ve worked very closely, particularly on counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism.” Tensions arising from the executions of the Bali 9 duo were ­acknowledged by Ms Bishop, but she said the relationship was broad enough to endure diplomatic disagreements.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Bishop also issued a reminder that Australia was the largest contributor to the <span class="companylink">International Organisation for Migration</span> in Indonesia and paid at least half of the costs of its services there.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Let me put it this way, Indonesia is a victim of the people-smuggling trade,” Ms Bishop said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“And when Australia is able to send a message to the people-smugglers that we will not accept their business model … Indonesia also benefits because there is a reduction in the number of people registering as <b>asylum</b>-seekers with the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> in Indonesia.” Following a leadership forum hosted by the Australian National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy on Monday, Dr Natal­egawa said he was disappointed that some in the Labor Party were considering supporting turnbacks. He said it would be “unfortunate” if <b>boat</b> turnbacks were adopted as a “general ­approach” by Australia. He called for a new diplomatic apparatus to defuse problems early, whether they related to people-smuggling, capital punishment or terrorism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Bishop is in Auckland at the Pacific regional consultations before a world humanitarian summit in Turkey next year to address responses to natural disasters.Four of the top 10 countries at greatest risk of natural disasters are in the Pacific, with Vanuatu topping the list. “Australia takes primary responsibility for supporting the Pacific,” Ms Bishop said. “We’ve been discussing ways that our aid dollar can go further.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>New year begins with tax breaks, start-up relief and drug deals</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JOE KELLY   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>422 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Small business with a turnover of less than $2 million will have tax rates reduced from 30 per cent to 28.5 per cent from today while start-ups will have more flexibility to attract quality employees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The July 1 changes range across health, agriculture and ­immigration and include an overhaul to employee share schemes.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government will unwind Labor’s 2009 changes and ensure employees will not pay tax on the value of share options upon issuance by their employers, in a bid to attract highly skilled workers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 5500-strong Australian Border Force commences, combining immigration and customs operational functions into a ­frontline enforcement agency supported by ships and aircraft.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An agricultural land register will provide greater transparency of foreign ownership, with inform­ation to be provided directly to the <span class="companylink">Australian Taxation Office</span> by investors with farm holdings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tony Abbott said yesterday that he was delivering on his commitments and that nearly 290,000 jobs had been created since the election in addition to the signing of three free-trade agreements and the halting of <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> arrivals. “The small busines­ses of Australia will receive a tax cut as part of the biggest small business boost in our nation’s history, which will help small business to create even more jobs,” the Prime Minister said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">New primary health networks across the country take effect, aimed at delivering improved coordination of care and more ­efficient services for patients.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The sixth community pharmacy agreement will start, providing for an optional $1 ­discount on prescriptions for ­patients, potentially costing pharmacists $800m over the next half decade. Medicare rebates will remain frozen ­instead of rising in line with CPI, with the freeze remaining in place until July 2018.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The move is estimated to save the government $1.3 billion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government will also proceed with cuts of nearly $600m over four years to health flexible funds that provide services in rural Australia and help close the gap in health comes for indigenous Australians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An efficiency dividend of 3.25 per cent is also to be implemented for the Australian Res­earch Council, cutting $74m in funding over three years in a move expected to hit universities.Some reforms have been delayed. Welfare changes due to commence, but which were opposed by Labor, include plans to limit family tax benefit Part B to parents with children aged under six, as well as reductions in end of year supplements.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Labor drops safeguard from <b>refugee</b> stance</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>James Massola Political Correspondent   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>769 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration - Obligation omitted</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor has dropped any reference to non-refoulement - the principle which protects refugees from being returned to a country where they face harm - from its draft national platform.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The move has drawn sharp criticism from lawyer and <b>refugee</b> advocate Julian Burnside and Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young, but Labor's immigration spokesman Richard Marles and Labor for Refugees spokesman Shane Prince point to a replacement clause they argue covers Australia's obligations under the UN <b>Refugee</b> Convention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The change is one of a slew of amendments contained in the ALP's draft national platform and is part of a shake-up of the ALP's approach to <b>refugee</b> policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those changes include:</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For Australia's <b>refugee</b> intake to be increased from 13,750 to 27,000 over time. This aspiration is contained in the draft platform and is an increase on the 20,000 target set in 2011; Detention facilities - including those offshore - to be subject to transparent, independent oversight; The abolition of temporary protection visas; Current detention centres will continue to be run with private sector contractors for the term of the current contracts. The platform is silent on the issue of Labor adopting the Coalition's policy of turning back <b>asylum</b> seeker boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor leader Bill Shorten and Mr Marles left the door open to that policy being adopted on Monday, but it is expected the party's Left faction will fight that move by putting a resolution that explicitly prohibits Labor in government from implementing turn-backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to the 1951 <b>Refugee</b> Convention, which Australia signed in 1954, any signatory nation shall not "expel or return ("refouler") a <b>refugee</b> in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life or freedom would be threatened on account of his race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The two previous national platforms, published in 2009 and 2011, both explicitly committed an Australian Labor government to "comply with the non-refoulement and all other protection obligations we have voluntarily assumed in signing the <b>Refugee</b> Convention".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The new draft, which will be the subject of vigorous debate at national conference, instead contains a new clause numbered 206 that states: "Labor will treat people seeking our protection with dignity and compassion and in accordance with our international obligations, the rule of law and core Australian principles of fairness and humanity".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Burnside said the principle of non-refoulement was the central obligation of the <b>Refugee</b> Convention, which "imposes very few obligations, but the central one is that you do not send a person back to a place where they face possible persecution and you must not do it directly or indirectly".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He suggested the omission "opens the way to turn-backs" [of <b>asylum</b> seeker boats] and that it may have been cut because "until the last election, Labor was in flagrant breach of many obligations and certainly in breach of the <b>Refugee</b> Convention".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LABOR & <b>ASYLUM</b> SEEKER POLICY</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A HISTORY</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">May 1992</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Keating Labor government introduces mandatory detention for arrivals who don’t have valid visas, a policy that has had bipartisan support since.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">September 2001</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Howard Coalition government introduces off shore processing through excising islands in the migration zone, with the support of Labor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">February 2008</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rudd government dismantles Howard government’s Pacific Solution, winding down the Manus and Nauru detention centres in favour of Christmas Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">May 2008</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rudd government abolishes temporary protection visas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">July 2010</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Gillard Labor government reinstates off shore processing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">July 2011</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Gillard government signs <b>asylum</b>-seeker transfer agreement with Malaysia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A memorandum of understanding is signed with Papua New Guinea regarding sending <b>asylum</b> seekers to Manus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">August 2012</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After the High Court finds the “Malaysia solution” is invalid, off shore processing on Nauru and in PNG is announced as alternatives. The government introduces a “no advantage” principle for people who arrive by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">May 2013</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Gillard government excises Australian mainland from migration zone.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">June 2013</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Second Rudd government announces tougher measures that send all <b>asylum</b> seekers off shore for processing, stop any <b>asylum</b> seekers arriving by <b>boat</b> being settled in Australia, and return those found not to be refugees to their home country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">December 2014</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott government reintroduces temporary protection visas despite Labor opposition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">June 2015</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor opposition supports government’s emergency legislation to close loophole making off shore detention illegal. Explicit guarantee of non-refoulement (which protects refugees from being returned to danger) is dropped from ALP platform, but new draft says “international obligations” will be met.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Truth gets lost in all the noise</span>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>319 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Comment</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The mere fact Australia is a country that will offer a new home to refugees ensures <b>asylum</b> seekers will always want to come - whether by <b>boat</b>, plane or lining up in the mythical queue in conflict zones.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia's angry political debates have been dominated by the method of <b>asylum</b> seekers' arrival, but not the principle that this country has an obligation to accept refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This can be forgotten amid all the shouting about excised zones, offshore processing, people smugglers or "nope, nope, nope" type of rhetoric from both sides of the political fence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So when Rohingya <b>asylum</b> seekers from Burma began to move in great numbers, as has unexpectedly occurred this year, there will be pressure on Australia to lend a hand.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just as when Tamils fled in the aftermath of Sri Lanka's civil war.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Or Hazaras from Afghanistan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And who can say which group will be next, persecuted for their race, religion or nationality - only that the bloody record of human history tells that some people will always seek refuge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The point is that for as long as Australia accepts that as a prosperous and safe country there is a responsibility to provide what assistance as we can to those in need, these ugly debates over the mechanics of accepting <b>asylum</b> seekers will continue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And that should not be taken as a reason to abandon responsibility to humanity, but to better understand the modern pressures on a <b>refugee</b> program.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To recognise that smugglers can exploit the vulnerable for profit by offering escape, and this can be both unfair and extremely dangerous.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It also means recognising that not every person who makes a claim for <b>asylum</b> will necessarily qualify as a <b>refugee</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Which should mean, too, Australia is a country that can afford to be generous with those who do.</p>
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